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PORTLAND, OR -- (Marketwire) -- 12/29/09 -- For college students and parents trying to make the most of their textbook budgets, it's important to know that online bookstores aren't all created equal. This month, the team at Direct Textbook is issuing six tips to help college students and parents make smart choices when purchasing textbooks : http://www.directtextbook.com/textbook-rental.php online. "According to a Student Watch report...  

I'm starting up a textbook digitization business on campus which converts physical textbooks into PDFs: Is the legal grey area that this falls into more of a legal deathwish? After a few weeks researching this idea and drafting up a business plan, my legal concerns are keeping me from getting too invested in this idea. What I'm proposing to do is to start a textbook digitization business in which students can convert their textbooks into PDFs...  

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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...  

Open-source textbook firm Flat World Knowledge has raised an additional $2.5 million in funding. The company said back in March that it had raised $8 million in a first round of funding—but a spokesman says that round was expanded because of “momentum” in its business. The startup says that this fall more than 40,000 college students at 400 colleges used its textbooks, which it makes available for free online and are registered under a...  

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.  

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb..This item belongs to: texts/americana.This item has files of the following types: Abbyy GZ, Animated GIF, DjVu, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Image Container PDF, Metadata, Scandata, Single Page Processed JP2 ZIP  

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...  

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.  

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.  

Students who are blind, have low vision, or have a learning disability that requires computer-generated speech and highlighted text soon will have more resources after publisher Flat World Knowledge announced Dec. 14 that it will make its content available to Bookshare, the largest web-based library for people with print disabilities. Key words: educational technology, Bookshare, Flat World Knowledge, assistive technology devices, free online...  

People can joke all they want about textbooks being the same as when they were back in school, but it’s not true. Not in Portales, anyway, where textbooks are swapped out every six years. Now is the time, when it comes to elementary school reading...  

This website stands as an online student-to-student marketplace where textbooks can be bought and sold. That is, Rebookd gives students the ability to buy/sell their textbooks directly with other students, avoiding middlemen and the typical mark-up that goes with them. Using the site is inexpensive, as an account is created at no cost and just a small fee has to be paid by the buyer and the seller when a transaction takes place.Read moreLearn...  

My last year in undergrad I lived in a tiny apartment over the only off-campus bookstore. The apartment was so small that I had to lift the 3 foot kitchen counter every time I wanted to enter the bathroom. But the apartment was great as I was able to work in the bookstore during the [...]