From tuaw.com
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The announcement this morning that textbooks would be sold through the iBookstore wasn't especially surprising. But the price was; full-featured multimedia electronic textbooks being offered for no more than US$15 is exactly the kind of disruptive shakeup the industry needed. While only the K-12 education market is on board so far, I'm looking forward to a future where universities sign up too, and students' book costs drop from the nearly...
- McGraw-Hill to Deliver High School Curricula with Apple's iBooks Textbooks (rss.prnewswire.com)
From a detailed iBooks 2 review This week, I tested a one-stop solution to much of that which ails textbooks: Apple’s iBooks 2. This redesigned iPad app offers enhanced educational textbooks that are, for now, focused on high-school students and cost no more than $15 each. Apple’s smallest and least expensive iPad can store roughly eight to 10 textbooks, along with other content. (High schoolers have an average of four textbooks a year...
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- Rice University develops free peer-reviewed textbooks (teleread.org)
- Director of Online Marketing / eCampus.com / Lexington, KY (jobs.marketingpilgrim.com)
- Kno reports 95% of students enjoyed using its e-textbooks (teleread.org)
From the press release:
The Rice University-based open-education platform Connexions today unveiled a bold plan to shake up the $4 billion college textbook industry by providing free online publisher-quality textbooks for five of the country's most-attended college courses.
The OpenStax College textbook initiative, which is funded by the William and Flora [...]
From resourceshelf.com
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- OpenStax College plans free textbooks for popular college courses (kurzweilai.net)
Recognizing the increasing high costs of attending college, the MSU Alumni Club of Livingston County offers an annual scholarship of $750 to high school seniors residing in Livingston County. The funds are to be used for the purchase of textbooks ...
From api.bing.com
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- Choosing where to buy, sell textbooks (api.bing.com)
They met at an event organized by Yossi Vardi. He added, "Our team was very excited to be part of such a talented engineering organization working on innovative projects to help students on a global scale." The digital textbooks industry is heating up.
From api.bing.com
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- Save Money on Textbooks (api.bing.com)
- Chegg Launches E-Textbook Reader Ahead of Apple Event (api.bing.com)
- As Apple Announcement Looms, Chegg Enters E-Textbook Wars (api.bing.com)
Thousands of cheap textbooks are available at www.textbooks.org.Gainesville, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/30/2012 -- College students can now save money on their college textbooks at an easy-to-find website, Textbooks.org. The website makes it easy to find cheap textbooks with its price comparison search tool and list of college textbook vendors. According to Textbooks.org spokesman Steven Kennedy, students should be able to save significant money on...
From feedburner.com
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- Textbook Rental Programs at College Stores Continue to Grow (api.bing.com)
Chegg, a Santa Clara, Calif.–based startup that made its name in textbook rentals, has made its first piece of software that it says will aid the transition to digital learning for students by offering e-textbooks that act an awful lot like physical textbooks.
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