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I'm finishing my BA right now (yes, it's taken me a while!), and while I already purchased my books for this semester at a pretty dang good price, I'm always looking for a bargain. So, when I came across TextBook Media, I was pretty excited at the possibilities. Basically, here's how TextbookMedia works. First, you'll need to register (both free and paid versions of the textbooks require this). Browse for the book you need. Figure out if...  

The holiday festivities are behind us and it seems like were all slightly bummed about returning to the five-day workweek. But dont let a permanent case of the "Mondays" keep you down. There are some great TGI-any day deals happening right now. From clothes to books, photos and more, these  

One of the things Apple should do to achieve runaway success with the tablet is incorporate textbooks. The folks at Coursesmart, a joint venture of five publishers that sells college textbooks as ebooks, have produced a video demonstrating how it could work.  

OBERLIN, Ohio, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Textbooks and course materials provide college students with vital information that they need to do well in class. However, many students come to college unprepared for this expense.  

With Apple’s much-hyped tablet computer just months away, publishers are already beginning to have visions of how the device will change their business. The market is already filled with dedicated reading devices like Amazon’s Kindle, most of which feature black-and-white e-ink screens.  

Mariah Blake, Washington Monthly - Don McLeroy is a balding, paunchy man with a thick broom-handle mustache who lives in a rambling two-story brick home in a suburb near Bryan, Texas. When he greeted me at the door one evening last October, he was clutching a thin paperback with the skeleton of a seahorse on its cover, a primer on natural selection penned by famed evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr. We sat down at his dining table, which was...  

In the 1961 edition of his famous textbook of economic principles, Paul Samuelson wrote that GNP in the Soviet Union was about half that in the United States but the Soviet Union was growing faster. As a result, one could...FelixSalmon.com (subscribe) : Dismal science datapoint of the day ...The Austrian Economists (subscribe) : Debate Over Soviet Economic Growth ...blogs : Marginal Revolution, FelixSalmon.com, The Austrian Economists, Randy...  

We've covered Flat World Knowledge before, and it's efforts to to make college curriculum more accessible to both students and teachers. The company has two major announcements this week that will have anyone who supports free, open source textbooks dancing a jig. First up is the news that Flat World has partnered up with Bookshare to supply digital textbooks to people with print disabilities that inhibit a person's ability to use printed...  

The MAM's Yard School of Art offers scholarships to eight deserving students for its Winter 2010 semester. The Nathaniel C. Harris, Jr., Scholarships, which will be awarded to students grades K-12, will provide free tuition for one studio art course. Set up in 2003, this fund allows artistically talented and economically disadvantaged children to enrol in the Yard School of Art. If you are a teacher or school official, you could nominate a...  

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced today its online textbook store’s “Cheap Textbooks, Free Tunes” promotion http://www.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/free-tunes.asp. Customers who purchase any new or used textbook from December 26, 2009, through January 30, 2010 can pick 10 free song downloads from a choice of 30...  

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 21/PRNewswire/ -- RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet's largest destination for professor ratings, today launched a new feature allowing students to rent textbooks directly from the site. Powered by Chegg.com, students will have access to more than 2.4 million college textbooks, offering savings at more than 6,400 colleges and universities across America.  

ABAC has held seminars for students all throughout the fall semester. The Student Success Seminar was held on November 11 in the Health Sciences building; it was the last seminar for the semester. This seminar included information about the requirements for financial aid and scholarships.  

In some school districts here in the Houston, TX area the are 2 sets of textbooks. One is issued to the child to keep at home for use there. Then there is a set to be used in the classroom. Most schools here no longer permit kids to go to their lockers between classes. That is why there is a set of textbooks to be used in the classroom. I'd be stressing over having to replace the eReader when my kid lost or broke it. Elizabeth http...  

The Oklahoma State Textbook Committee has approved Carnegie Learning® Bridge to Algebra, Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II Textbooks as core mathematics curricula, and the company?s Cognitive Tutor® Software programs for each of these subjects as supplementary curricula for implementation through June 2016.All approved instructional materials align to the most current Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) for the state, and Oklahoma School...  

Solano Community College's Vallejo Center President Jerry Kea has launched a fundraiser to help purchase textbooks for the campus resource center.The Vallejo Center is selling discount coupon books that offer savings at restaurants, hair salons and other establishments.