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WND.comWill e-books replace college textbooks?OSU - The LanternApple Inc., recently announced the company will be joining Amazon and Barnes & Noble as a major player in the electronic textbook business. The technology powerhouse has made deals with textbook companies to sell electronic copies of books for grades ...Apple releases 'GarageBand for authors'WND.comNew tools make self-publishing e-books easierUSA TODAYeBooks Are Beginning to...  

Now in its third semester, the Brown Bookstore's textbook rental program is an increasingly popular cost-saving tool among students. About 1,400 students used the program last semester, compared to roughly 300 students who used it in spring 2011 ...  

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...  

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...  

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 [...]  

eCampus.com/Lexington, KYAbout Us eCampus.com was established on July 2, 1999 as one of America's oldest and largest on-line textbook stores. eCampus.com is featured annually by Internet Retailer as one of the top 500 etailers in the country. eCampus.com's mission is to provide the easiest, fastest, cheapest way for college and university students to buy textbooks, rent textbooks and sell textbooks. eCampus.com believes the Internet buying...  

E-textbook company Kno has popped out a press release saying that it found 95% of college students who used its e-textbook application “found it very useful and plan to use it again”. The company conducted a study with four California community colleges, on 400 students and faculty in 27 classes using an open-source statistics textbook. [...]  

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...  

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.  

For a long time, Apple has been talking about revolutionizing textbooks with the iPad. The firm finally had its dog and pony show, but the whole thing turned out to be bizarrely retro: we can make learning fun by embedding animations in textbooks!  Look, moving textbooks onto electronic tablet is a good idea in the long run, for two obvious reasons, neither of which Apple did enough to emphasize:  

During Apple’s education event today, the company announced a new Textbook section coming to the U.S. iBookstore to showcase a new collection of interactive textbooks that will be supported by iBooks 2. In addition, Apple has partnered with three leading textbook companies that are collectively responsible for publishing 90% of textbooks including McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson. Apple has also published a new, free iBooks…  

College students seeking to save money on textbooks need look no further than their local college store. More than 2,500 college stores now offer textbook rental programs of some kind, resulting in substantial cash savings for millions of students ...  

I guess the college backpacks will be lighter in the near future. There has been alot of hype for the iPad working on re-inventing the Textbooks. Guessing we can now call them eTextbooks. It sounds good, having all of your textbooks on a iPad, just turn it on and you can read a textbook. This [...]  

Apple's latest foray into digital textbooks today raises a lot of questions about the future of the textbook publishing industry and digital textbook startups who now find themselves going up against Apple. One of the highest profile digital textbook startups is Kno, which started out with its own oversized tablet but now focusses on delivering textbooks through its iPad app. On the surface, things don't look so great for Kno, but CEO Osman...  

Our family just spent hundreds of dollars on college textbooks for the Spring semester. Will Apple's recent attempt to break into the textbook market, and other rapidly evolving e-book distribution models, help to moderate soaring textbook prices?