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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.   |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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
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. |
PC World
July 23, 2007
Eric Dahl |
Google Starts to Make Online Apps Work Offline How useful are your Web apps if you don't have a Net connection? Google's Gears API aims to make online data available anywhere, anytime. |
Inc.
April 1, 2010
Sarah Kessler |
The Race for E-textbook Readers Carrying hefty textbooks may soon be history. |
Information Today
February 27, 2012 |
Cengage Learning to Provide Discounted Etextbooks to California State University This 3-year contract will allow more than 400,000 students on 23 campuses to access Cengage Learning eTextbooks at a substantial cost savings. |
Information Today
November 1, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
HTML5-Powered E-Readers for the Browser A new HTML5 reader, powered by SkyShelf from LibreDigital, allows customers to read books in the browser on their laptops, tablets and many smartphones. |
PC World
September 25, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Take Google Gears for a Test Spin With Google Reader The beta version of Google's latest add-on lets you immerse yourself in Web content without maintaining a Web connection. |
InternetNews
January 27, 2009
David Needle |
Gmail Goes Offline - and That's a Good Thing Google Labs releases test version of its e-mail service that can be used offline. |
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. |
Information Today
July 23, 2012 |
Desire2Learn Announces New Integration Partnerships Desire2Learn, Inc., a provider of teaching and learning platforms, and Cengage Learning, a provider of teaching, learning, and research solutions, announced the availability of enhanced interoperability of Cengage Learning's digital content and solutions within the Desire2Learn platform. |
InternetNews
July 7, 2010 |
Firefox 4 Boasts New UI, Improved Performance Next generation of the Firefox browser gets a performance boost, HTML5 support and more. |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Microsoft Pushes Products and Alliances in E-Book Market Microsoft Corp. has announced that it has made the Windows version of Microsoft Reader for desktop PCs and laptop computers available as a free download. In addition, major publishers are making best-selling titles available in Microsoft Reader format... |
InternetNews
December 1, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Times To Go Commuters can now read the New York Times beta-style on their laptops instead of getting ink on their fingers. |
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. |
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. |
CRM
February 1, 2007 |
The Pulse: Which Group of Workers in Your Company Relies Most on Mobile Technology? A reader poll: Sales -- 65%... Service/Support -- 22%... etc. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Here Comes "Times Reader" Following six months of beta testing, Times is ready to launch its newest online publication. Investors, take note. |
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. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2013 |
R.I.P. Google Reader We think the phrase "we think" could be used in every announcement to consumers: It allows a company to make a statement that can't be proven false. Google, which on July 1 officially closes down Google Reader, just might be the "we think" master. |
Information Today
July 16, 2013 |
Vital Source Debuts Building Block for Blackboard Learn Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Content Group's etextbook solution, launched the Building Block etextbook platform, which integrates its VitalSource Bookshelf with Blackboard Learn, Blackboard's learning management system. |
Information Today
July 14, 2008 |
New Version of Read It Later Now Available The new version of the web productivity tool Read It Later with Firefox 3 support is now available. It allows you to save webpages of interest to read later |
Information Today
May 23, 2013 |
Blackboard and Vital Source Launch Etextbook Pilot Pilot programs with a number of colleges and universities will be launched to test-drive an integrated offering that makes the VitalSource Bookshelf platform available directly within Blackboard Learn. |
InternetNews
March 31, 2008
David Needle |
Google Docs Moves Out of The Cloud Google's free browser plug-in is designed to extend the usefulness of online apps. |
Information Today
March 14, 2013 |
EDUCAUSE and Internet2 to Launch Etextbook Pilot Courseload, CourseSmart, McGraw-Hill Education and more than 50 publishers are participating in a pilot in fall 2013 to further provide campuses nationwide an opportunity to explore, evaluate, and advance the transition from traditional media models, including textbooks, to electronic platforms. |
Information Today
August 2000 |
Publishers Participate in Launch Program for Microsoft Reader E-Books Microsoft Corp. has announced that more than 30 book publishers have participated in a production launch program for Microsoft Reader with ClearType display technology, ensuring the availability of over 800 of their books for Microsoft Reader when it launches later this summer.... |
Information Today
December 4, 2006
Richard W. Wiggins |
Times Reader Transforms Online, Offline The New York Times on Screen Times Reader may tempt loyal readers of the print edition to get their daily Times fix on a laptop, desktop, or tablet PC. |
CRM
August 2, 2004 |
The Pulse: Is your CRM initiative designed to... What's your CRM initiative designed to do, meet customer needs or internal needs? Results of a reader poll. |
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. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Kate Rockwood |
Can e-book Readers Like the Sony Reader Dominate the Industry in 10 Years? Steve Haber of Sony Electronics discusses whether electronic readers will replace books. |
Information Today
August 27, 2013 |
Chegg Unveils Updated Mobile App Chegg just released a redesigned version of its mobile app for etextbook reading. The app, which is available for Apple and Android devices, has more than 2.5 million guided solutions to help students. |
Information Today
July 22, 2010
Nancy Herther |
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. |
CRM
September 1, 2007
Marshall Lager |
Software, On and Off A growing segment of on-demand providers is boasting of offline functionality. Is this an admission of failure, or a stopgap on the way to perpetual access? |
InternetNews
March 26, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
AJAX Goes Offline on Zimbra Desktop Zimbra will be making its offline utility publicly available as an alpha release. |
BusinessWeek
September 3, 2007
Jenna Goudreau |
Making Digital Books Into Page Turners Despite tepid response to its Reader, Sony sees potential in the market - and Amazon may agree. |
PC Magazine
August 23, 2006
Davis D. Janowski |
Google Reader Google reader is a good, free, easy-to-use RSS and Atom feed reader. |
