Chegg Announces Web-Based eTextbook Reader
Chegg, a website specializing in the sale and rental of textbooks, has announced a new way to study. Their new eTextbook Reader is a web-based e-reader allowing users to access their textbooks from any...
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Apple About To Launch New Pages, iBooks Software?
All anyone knows for certain about the Apple event that starts in just a few minutes is that it is related to education. The rumor mill is generally agreed, though, that the announcement will involve...
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Apple Announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iTunes U App
Apple announced the launch of iBooks 2 in New York City today. As expected, the update to Apple’s e-reader software is aimed squarely at textbooks. Textbooks in iBooks 2 include an amazing array of...
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iPad Textbook App For Algebra Boosts Student Math Scores 20%
Apple may have re-invented the wheel this time, insofar you can consider the wheel as an algebra textbook. Over the past year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publisher of textbooks that you and me and...
View ArticleApple Sells 350,000 Textbooks In Three Days
Apple’s announcement on Thursday that they were entering into the textbook market was generally met with enthusiasm, despite controversy over the EULA for their new iBooks Author tool. The program...
View ArticleSweden Looks To Replace Textbooks With iPads
Sweden seems to have taken Nolan Bushnell’s words to heart. A school system in the country wants to modernize teaching with computer integration. A suburb of Stockholm, Sollentuna, is proposing that...
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Apple iBooks Vs. Traditional Textbooks [Infographic]
Yes it is the digital age, but that doesn’t mean everything has to be digital. If you’re Apple however, it should be your mission to at least offer everything in a digital format and that’s pretty much...
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Amazon Gets Into The Textbook Renting Business
Your local college textbook store now has another competitor – and it’s a big one. Amazon has just begun to allow students to rent print textbooks for what they say can be up to 70% of the sale price....
View ArticleiPad Mini Event Will Focus On Education
Education is obviously important to Apple. The company took time out in January to devote an entire press conference to iBooks 2 and interactive textbooks. Since then, schools around the world have...
View ArticleKindle Fire HD Discounted $50 For Students
One of the promises that came with the growing tablet market was an end-run around college textbook price-gouging. Students everywhere were supposed to be using interactive textbooks and doing homework...
View ArticleTextbooks Are Now Available On Google Play
During the big reveal of the new Nexus 7, Google also announced some of the updates coming to Android 4.3 and Google Play. One of the lesser talked about updates was that textbooks would be hitting...
View ArticleEvolution in Texas Schools Encounters Resistance
A report from the Dallas Morning News confirmed that Texas State Board of Education members approved a series of textbooks this week that cover Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in its scientific...
View ArticleCollege Textbooks: Tricks To Help You Save On Them
College is expensive and if you are lucky enough to be able to afford tuition, you still have to come up with enough money to buy all of the necessary tools and supplies for each semester or quarter....
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Borders Launches Online Textbook Marketplace
Borders has launched a new "Textbook Marketplace" that allows users to buy and sell new and used textbooks. The Marketplace features more than 1.4 million titles including a selection of used textbooks...
View ArticleChegg Announces Web-Based eTextbook Reader
Chegg, a website specializing in the sale and rental of textbooks, has announced a new way to study. Their new eTextbook Reader is a web-based e-reader allowing users to access their textbooks from any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Apple About To Launch New Pages, iBooks Software?
All anyone knows for certain about the Apple event that starts in just a few minutes is that it is related to education. The rumor mill is generally agreed, though, that the announcement will involve...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Apple Announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iTunes U App
Apple announced the launch of iBooks 2 in New York City today. As expected, the update to Apple’s e-reader software is aimed squarely at textbooks. Textbooks in iBooks 2 include an amazing array of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
iPad Textbook App For Algebra Boosts Student Math Scores 20%
Apple may have re-invented the wheel this time, insofar you can consider the wheel as an algebra textbook. Over the past year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publisher of textbooks that you and me and...
View ArticleApple Sells 350,000 Textbooks In Three Days
Apple’s announcement on Thursday that they were entering into the textbook market was generally met with enthusiasm, despite controversy over the EULA for their new iBooks Author tool. The program...
View ArticleSweden Looks To Replace Textbooks With iPads
Sweden seems to have taken Nolan Bushnell’s words to heart. A school system in the country wants to modernize teaching with computer integration. A suburb of Stockholm, Sollentuna, is proposing that...
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