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Apple Schools Amazon The iPad may be the digital textbook of tomorrow. |
Information Today
August 24, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Cengage Learning Rents Textbooks, Re-Brands iChapters.com Net newbies such as BookRenter.com and Chegg offer used textbooks for rental over their websites. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon's Spring Cleaning Amazon.com comes through with a better-than-expected quarterly showing. Investors, take note. |
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November 9, 2007
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Even More Money-Saving Shopping Tips Why spend more than you have to for stuff you want? These websites can help you zero in on the best bargains. |
Information Today
January 24, 2013 |
Kno Introduces Kno Me Personal Study Dashboard Kno, Inc., a provider of education software, launched Kno Me, a personal study dashboard that helps students measure their engagement with each Kno eTextbook they use. |
Information Today
August 23, 2010 |
Cengage Learning Enhances CengageBrain.com The website, which allows students to purchase or rent textbooks, ebooks, or individual echapters and download study tools, features a more intuitive interface for students |
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DynamicBooks to Offer College Open Textbooks The DynamicBooks platform enables instructors to customize and personalize textbooks that are delivered to the instructor's students using an advanced reader and annotation tool that can be used from most computing devices. |
Information Today
July 22, 2010
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NOOKstudy -- Barnes & Noble Breaks into the Lucrative Elearning Textbook Market The product was pre-released to a small group of college campuses this summer. BN expects the general release of the product for free, open use in August-to coincide with the beginning of the new school year. |
Fast Company
November 2010
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Chegg: Saving College Kids Money Through Textbook Rental Aayush Phumbhra is reforming the dysfunctional world of college textbooks by renting them to students nationwide. |
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Half.com's Brief Reprieve It's hard to blame eBay pulling the plug on its half.com operation; and there are plenty of alternatives for consumers. |
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January 19, 2012
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Apple Just Revolutionized Education Apple unveils digital textbooks for the iPad, which will change education forever. |
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January 18, 2012
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Apple's Next Breakthrough Product Apple wants to bring that age-old academic stalwart, the textbook, into the 21st century. |
Fast Company
Ainsley O'Connell |
Why Chegg Is Abandoning A Business Worth Over $200 Million A Year Over the next 18 months Chegg will liquidate its print inventory and refocus on its digital products, including self-guided homework help and on-demand tutoring. |
CIO
September 1, 2001
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No More Paper, No More Books As technology continues to pervade the classroom, even the classic textbook is in danger of being relegated to the shelves of historical artifacts... |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2007
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Borders Group Still Regrouping Apparently, the performance at book retailer Borders Group will have to go down to go up, because 2007 is turning out to be a more challenging transition year than investors had anticipated. |
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July 9, 2010
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College Libraries Saying Buh-Bye to Books? Electronic texts replace dusty tomes at more universities. |
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June 16, 2010
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Why You Should Keep Track of Old Favorites We can get discouraged after a big market crash and swear off certain investments. We can also analyze a company and dismiss it for any number of reasons. However, you should always check back in on those candidates. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2006
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A Textbook Case The prohibitive cost of purchasing and maintaining textbooks has left our students with outdated materials or none at all. The solution? Print your own. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
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Amazon Partners With Facebook to Make Online Shopping More Social Amazon is now offering its shoppers a connect with Facebook accounts that allows movement of Facebook friends to Amazon to get recommendations from friends on what to buy. |
Information Today
December 2, 2014
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OpenCon: Students and Early-Career Researchers for Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data OpenCon, was the first full conference for students and early-career researchers that focused on the open knowledge trifecta -- open access, open education, and open data. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Bookmarking B&N for Later There are lots of reasons potential investors might want to wait before picking up Barnes & Noble. |
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March 22, 2007
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Reading Up on Book Retailers Investors, Barnes & Noble is struggling, but still worth a read. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Amazon's Coming Lump of Coal The e-commerce leader is fighting too many battles to sustain current valuation. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Amazon To Open A Brick-And-Mortar Bookstore Amazon, the company that helped put so many brick-and-mortar bookstores out of business, is... opening a new brick-and-mortar bookstore. |
Information Today
August 28, 2014 |
OpenStax College Expands Its Textbook Catalog OpenStax College, an initiative of Rice University, will use a $9.5 million grant from multiple donors to add 10 free college textbooks to its catalog by 2017. |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2003
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Shopping Search Week Shopping search has grown up. Once simple product search and price comparison engines now offer sophisticated tools designed to assist with all aspects of the shopping cycle. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Amazon on Demand Online shopping is on the upswing and Amazon's obviously not slacking off at this critical juncture, having been working on lots of things quietly and behind the scenes. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2006
Chuck Saletta |
Dueling Fools: Amazon.com Bear Do you really want to buy an underwhelming retailer's overpriced stock? Investors, stay away! |
Information Today
September 23, 2014
Woody Evans |
NISO on Ebooks: Dynamic, Open, and Cheap National Information Standards Organization hosted a webinar on E-books for Education, which explored definitions, content, access, and open access issues affecting the present state and future course of ebooks for education. |
Information Today
March 4, 2010
Barbara Quint |
DynamicBooks Opens Etextbooks for Faculty Customization Using the software, faculty will be able to edit and delete text and add content, including multimedia and web links. Other publishers besides Macmillan have launched their own curricular tools. |
Information Today
August 22, 2011 |
Textbook Rental Firm Chegg to Add Etextbooks In addition to textbook rentals, Chegg has rapidly enhanced its services, offering a fully integrated experience with digital services, including homework help, course selection, and class notes. |
Information Today
February 16, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Etextbooks Attracting Involvement of the FCC, Education Department, and Higher Ed The focus on etextbooks continues as even the federal government makes major strides into taking the school textbook into the 21 st century. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2004
Phil Wohl |
Amazon Strong Despite Slide The company still has the hallmarks of a great long-term investment. |
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November 24, 2008
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King of the Christmas Clicks It's a rough economy, and it sounds as though consumers won't be shopping much this holiday season. The malaise is extending to e-commerce as well. Take a look at how some e-stores are faring. |
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January 18, 2012
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Publishing Stocks: Will Apple Lead the Textbook Digital Revolution? How do you think Apple's plan will affect the future of these companies? |
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April 25, 2011 |
Flat World Knowledge Releases 'Make It Your Own' Platform for Textbooks The fully-automated system gives professors greater control over textbook content, and the ability, with one click, to make their modified book available to students free online or in multiple, low-cost digital and print formats. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2007
Jeremy MacNealy |
Fool on Call: The Battle of the Bookstores Investors, check out what Barnes & Noble and Borders had to say in their conference calls. With the bookseller industry touting discounts, patient investors might be able to find a discount on both companies. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2003
Peter E. Williams |
Will a Digital Textbook Replace Me, the Teacher? A number of excellent digital textbooks are beginning to surface, delivering information in an interesting and interactive manner to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. But, where does that leave educators? |
InternetNews
April 14, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Study Links Facebook to Lower GPA New research finds that university students using the popular social network perform more poorly than their offline peers. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008 |
In Search of a Business Model Facebook has been developing a business model designed to go beyond traditional online advertising. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
This Stock Faces Destination Destruction Barnes & Noble is going nowhere but down. |
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September 13, 2006 |
Money-Saving Tips for Shopping Why spend more than you need to? If you want to save money when you're shopping, you have plenty of options to consider. |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2006
Jim Mueller |
Fast and Foolish: Barnes & Noble A quick, due-diligence look at the bricks-and-mortar bookseller. Investors, take note. |
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September 16, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Sees Green in Brown Dan Brown's latest book, The Lost Symbol, is drawing cheers from the book industry. |
D-Lib
October 2009
Bonita Wilson |
It's Time for Wider Acceptance of e-Textbooks As indicated by the title of a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "This Could Be the Year of e-Textbooks, if Students Accept Them." |
Information Today
November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
Inc.
April 1, 2010
Sarah Kessler |
The Race for E-textbook Readers Carrying hefty textbooks may soon be history. |
Information Today
April 15, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
The Wild West of MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses are the subject of many recent headlines. The issues cover everything from the future of higher education to using technology to deliver courses and textbooks on a global scale. |
