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It is 24/7 buyback season at Textbooks.org, where students have a chance to sell their books online for potentially hundreds of dollars in return. Gainesville, Florida (PRWEB) May 31, 2012 It is 24/7 buyback season at Textbooks.org, where students have a ...  

You can save some money with the following deal from CengageBrain : $20 off $100+ off Print Textbooks. The deal comes with a coupon code FBTS20 that needs to be used when you place an order. Code expires 7/31/2012 Save even more when you use  

The University of Minnesota wants to save money for their students by making open-source textbooks available to the student body by way of its Open Access textbook catalog. As textbooks are obscenely overpriced already, this is a good thing. The university however, is also willing to pay its faculty to "review and adopt" the new open access books: “High textbook costs are one of the many factors that are contributing to the increasing...  

Gail Collins Henry Cabluck/AP Images Texas State Board of Education members Cynthia Dunbar, Barbara Cargill, and Gail Lowe discussing curriculum standards, Austin, May 2008. Cargill, who was appointed chairwoman last year by Governor Rick Perry, has expressed concern that there are now only ‘six true conservative Christians on the board.’ No matter where you live, if your children go to public schools, the...  

Inkling is an e-book publishing platform that's currently running an app on the App Store, and while Apple has been making an official push for more textbooks in iBooks, Inkling is strengthening its own holdings. The company has made a deal with Follett to bring hundreds of Inkling titles into college bookstores, where students can buy the ebook content right there in person. The company is selling whole textbooks, or it's also offering...  

KABUL -- Afghanistan's Education Ministry has urged Pakistan to reopen supply routes to NATO to allow for the delivery to Afghanistan of 4.5 million textbooks intended for Afghan schoolchildren. The head of the Ministry's Publication Department, Atahullah ...  

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The 20 Million Minds Foundation (20MM) in partnership with Akademos today announced the launch of a non-profit faculty-focused Textbook Search Tool to help determine affordable peer-reviewed textbook options that will be run on the...  

By Rob ReynoldsThis morning, Microsoft and Barnes and Noble announced that the software giant is investing $300 million in a new B&N subsidiary that will include the Nook and B&N College divisions. Microsoft’s investment gives it a 17.6 percent stake in the … Continue reading →What the Microsoft Investment in Barnes & Noble Means for E-textbooks by %%AUTHORINK%% on e-Literate Possibly related posts: Webinar on Textbooks I just wanted to drop a...  

Microsoft announced this week that it will invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble's (B&N) Nook e-reader to help create a subsidiary for the bookstore's e-book and college textbook businesses. The new agreement values the Nook and textbook businesses at $1.7 billion.  B&N's shares jumped nearly 70 percent after the announcement on Monday. As Microsoft sits just months away from releasing its tablet-friendly Windows 8 operating system, the move...  

Jaipur, May 26 (PTI) Activists and students here today opposed the government''s decision to withdraw Ambedkar''s cartoon from NCERT textbooks. At a protest meet organised by People''s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and Shiksha Ka Adhikar Manch, the ...  

HYDERABAD: Intermediate (Vocational) courses will have prescribed textbooks from the 2012-13 year. The Board of Intermediate Education is offering 29 vocational courses apart from a few short-term courses but these have had no prescribed textbooks till now.  

“There are other offending cartoons that were also found in the textbook and a committee has been created to examine which ones are offensive and remove them,” he said. No textbooks carrying the offending cartoon would be sold by textbook wh ...  

By renting your textbook you can save up to 90%! No lie. This will leave you with plenty of money to make that spring break trip you have been wanting to go on. Concerns? I get that. I had them to before I rented my first textbook. My biggest concern?  

The Pasco County School Board has postponed adopting new social studies textbooks after questions were raised about the process for selecting the books. Superintendent Heather Fiorentino pulled the elementary textbooks from the board agenda even ...  

Barnes & Noble is spinning off its college-textbook and digital divisions into a new subsidiary, bolstered by a $300-million investment by Microsoft, that is aimed at turning more college students on to electronic textbooks. The partnership ...