Future digital textbooks featuring multimedia and social website connections on devices including iPad or smart phones will help enhance interaction between students and teachers, and keep students updated of new developments, a visiting Canadian entrepreneur said Wednesday. Yuri Khramov, president of Evident Point Software Corp., said that teachers can send updated content to students through digital textbooks on computers. His company has forged partnership with the world's largest e-paper maker Prime View International Co. and other Taiwanese firms in the field. 'Take politics for example, new things happen every day,' he said during a press meet in Taipei. By using Active Textbook, a software developed by his company, teachers will be able to update the content of a textbook to inform students of who has won an election or who hasn't right away, even when students are at home, he added. The interaction between teachers and students will also be better when this type of products combine with social websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, Khramov said. Khramov said that his company's software is now only available on computers, but the company plans to put it on tablet computers and smartphones in the future. Evident Point is targeting high school and university students, not children, as Khramov explained that learning for children should be game-based, not book- based. The market of digital learning in the United States alone is worth US$40 billion a year, according to Khramov. He added that the digital learning market is still in its infancy. (By Alex Jiang) 