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The Motley Fool
February 3, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Schools Amazon The iPad may be the digital textbook of tomorrow.   |
The Motley Fool
January 19, 2012
Evan Niu |
Apple Just Revolutionized Education Apple unveils digital textbooks for the iPad, which will change education forever. |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Douglas MacMillan |
Inkling Publishes Textbooks for iPads With his San Francisco startup, Matt MacInnis is making textbooks iPad-friendly - and teaching them tricks that can't be done in print. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2010
Wade Roush |
The iPad May Kill the Kindle, But Amazon Could Still Come Out Ahead: The Only Comparison You Need to Read The tablet wars have heated up. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Goes Back to School Amazon's Kindle is rolling out textbook rentals in e-book form, hoping to cash in on the lucrative student market. |
InternetNews
February 18, 2010 |
Amazon Delivers Kindle App for BlackBerry Fans App will give readers the opportunity to pick and choose from more than 420,000 titles on their BlackBerry as well as read those they've already purchased with their Kindle. |
PC Magazine
May 5, 2009
Sascha Segan |
How the Apple iPad Could Kill the Kindle Apple' s much-rumored iPad could trounce the Kindle DX. Amazon won't mind, but the magazine industry will. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2012
John Grgurich |
Apple's Next Breakthrough Product Apple wants to bring that age-old academic stalwart, the textbook, into the 21st century. |
InternetNews
October 20, 2009 |
The Most Important Tech Product Is the Kindle, Not the iPhone The Amazon e-book reader is revolutionizing an industry that hasn't changed since its inception. You can't say that for the iPhone. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2010
Elise Craig |
Inkling Reinvents Textbooks for the iPad Inkling is expanding the iPad's uses into the classroom. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2010
Tim Beyers |
The iPad: A Huge Winner for Amazon The e-tailer one-ups Apple in its e-reader debut. |
Information Today
April 5, 2012 |
Android Etextbook App Available From Ingram's Vital Source As students look for more ways to interact with digital textbooks, they are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablets powered by the Android operating system. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Will Eat Amazon Alive Apple touts its e-books success, placing more pressure on Amazon's Kindle. |
Information Today
March 14, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Cengage Learning Introduces New `MindTap' Personal Learning Experience MindTap is a new personalized program of digital products and services that engages students with interactivity while also offering students and instructors choice in content, platform, devices, and learning tools. |
Information Today
March 19, 2012 |
CourseSmart Launches Enhanced Reading Platform The New CourseSmart Reader ensures that students and faculty have access to a superior digital reading experience on any device. |
Fast Company
November 2010
Stephanie Schomer |
Chegg: Saving College Kids Money Through Textbook Rental Aayush Phumbhra is reforming the dysfunctional world of college textbooks by renting them to students nationwide. |
InternetNews
March 19, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Google Aids Sony in Fight Against Amazon Kindle Google opens its digital library to Sony's e-reader, but the digital book battle with Amazon is just beginning as both companies chase the sweet spot - the commercial book market. |
Information Today
January 26, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Apple Announces Efforts to `Reinvent' Textbooks In an effort to "reinvent" textbooks, Apple unveiled a suite of tools and resources geared to the K-12 education market on Jan. 19 at New York's Guggenheim Museum. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2010
Nathan Alderman |
College Libraries Saying Buh-Bye to Books? Electronic texts replace dusty tomes at more universities. |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2010
Tim Beyers |
How Will the iPad Transform Media? A basket of good media stocks might make the most sense here. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 18, 2009
Scott Aronowitz |
Algebra Prep App Comes to iPhone Pearson has announced the availability of the new AlgebraPrep: Factoring application at the Apple App Store. Designed for use on the iPhone and iPod Touch, the application offers supplemental help to algebra students in the form of video tutorials and practice tests. |
InternetNews
January 21, 2010 |
Apps Coming to Amazon Kindle By taking a page from Apple's iPhone, App Store, and possibly, the widely expected Apple tablet, Amazon's move aims to broaden Kindle's capabilities for e-book publishers. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Evolution of the Textbook Publishers are beginning to go digital with science textbooks, pushing boundaries to give students a personalized, interactive experience. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2010 |
How the Kindle Can Compete With the Sexier iPad The iPad has so much more functionality than the Kindle. It's a Web-surfing, book-reading, email-sending machine. And, unlike the Kindle, it's in color! |
Information Today
May 23, 2011
Nancy Herther |
McGraw-Hill eBook Library Debuts As Its Etextbook Platform Company officials plan appearances at library-related conferences throughout the coming year to demo the new ebook service, geared to the needs of professional and academic markets. |
Information Today
October 13, 2009 |
West Opens 30 Legal Titles to Amazon Kindle With the rise of popularity of electronic book readers, Thomson Reuters' West has initiated electronic versions of selected titles from its book collection. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 1, 2010
Sara Stroud |
Merging IT With AT Assistive tech joins the mainstream When Apple's iPad hit shelves earlier this year, educators and educational software developers were already thinking about what it could mean for students with learning and communication impairments. |
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
July 25, 2011 |
CourseSmart Launches HTML5-Based Reader for Etextbooks CourseSmart announced the beta launch of its newest reader platform providing users with online, offline, anything, anywhere access to their eTextbooks. |
InternetNews
August 5, 2009 |
Sony Chases Amazon, Debuts Two New E-Readers Sony today unveiled two new e-readers and is cutting prices of its e-books in a bid to maintain a competitive edge in the burgeoning digital book market. |
Information Today
August 22, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
Books & Media Move to the Clouds; Apple, Amazon, and Walmart Fight for Market Share We can expect to see more posturing, product announcements, legal wrangling and, hopefully, consumers will see better ebook/app products at competitive prices. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2010
Chris Hill |
Will iPad School the Kindle? Len Edgerly discusses the battle between iPad and Kindle. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2007
John K. Waters |
Digital Publishing :: Out of Print Traditional textbook publishers are having to adjust to a changing market, as K-12 educators show a growing interest in digital content. |
Information Today
November 5, 2012 |
CourseSmart Launches CourseSmart Subscription Pack Up to 20 institutions will be invited to participate in a trial of the CourseSmart Subscription Pack, a one-stop shopping experience where students can buy all of their etextbooks from one website for one subscription price over a fixed access period. |
Information Today
March 4, 2013
Paula J. Hane |
Etextbook Update The etextbook market is in such flux, that it warrants revisiting frequently. This is a review of some recent noteworthy developments and a discussion of a report on student acceptance. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Get a Room, Apple and Amazon.com A new app puts Amazon's Kindle in your iPhone and iPod touch. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2004 |
FYI ... Primis Custom Publishing The publishing company is offering 900 e-textbooks at reduced prices in an effort to provide students and professors with an alternative to traditional textbooks. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2010
Manikandan Raman |
Amazon Vs. Google: Who Will Win the E-Book War? How long will the one-ups last? |
Information Today
January 25, 2010
Nancy Herther |
The DOJ and ADA Mandate Ebook Readers Be Accessible to All Ebook reader makers received a major reality check earlier this month when, after investigating charges of Americans with Disabilities Act violations, the U.S. Department of Justice announced settlements with four major universities that had been part of the Kindle DX project |
InternetNews
July 29, 2010 |
Amazon Debuts New, Low Price Wi-Fi Kindle With the iPad on its heels, Amazon cuts the price of its newest e-book reader and adds Wi-Fi support. |
InternetNews
July 21, 2009 |
Barnes & Noble's Reply to Kindle to Debut in 2010 Will Barnes & Noble's partnership with Plastic Logic provide a viable Kindle contender? |
| Information Today |
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. |
InternetNews
March 4, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Amazon Debuts Free Kindle App for iPhone Even though it's free, the new application is designed to coexist with Amazon's Kindle device. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 27, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Measuring the iPad's Potential for Education K-12 teachers are a bit more impressed by the cross between the laptop-iPhone hybrid, and told us it could go a long way in helping to connect educators with their students. |
Information Today
March 27, 2008 |
Follett Corp. Acquires Fourteen40 and Its CafeScribe Site The acquisition includes Fourteen40's social networking solution called CafeScribe, an online site at which students can browse purchase, and download ebooks that they need for class. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Kindle Goes to College Amazon's e-book reader makes inroads at Princeton. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
September 29, 2011 |
Etextbook Provider CourseSmart Adds Nine New Publishers With these latest additions, CourseSmart's publishing partners now total 31, including the largest in the higher education space: Pearson; Cengage Learning; McGraw-Hill Education; John Wiley & Sons; and the Bedford, Freeman, Worth Publishing Group. |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2009
Eric Jhonsa |
Why the iPhone's No Kindle Killer A smartphone just can't match the Kindle's book-reading experience. |
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 |
