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The ritual dates back to … well, probably to as long as college students have been shelling out cash for their textbooks. Students pay good money for their textbooks, only to turn around and sell them back at the end of the semester for pennies on the dollar – if there is any market for […]
How can we reach more learners, more effectively, and with greater impact? Education changes lives and societies, but can we sustain the current model? New models and new technologies allow us to rethink many of the premises of education—location and time, credits and credentials, knowledge creation and sharing. Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies is […]
Open-source textbooks, long considered a promising way to cut costs but still not widely used, could become more readily available and easily vetted as a University of Minnesota project expands. Inside Higher Ed Full Story
NEW YORK and REDMOND, Wash. — April 30, 2012 — Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the formation of a strategic partnership in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, which will build upon the history of strong innovation in digital reading technologies from both companies. The partnership will accelerate […]
The head of Indiana University’s e-texts program lays out how his institution plans to “disrupt” the traditional textbook publishing model with the help of publishers themselves. Campus Technology Full Article
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday sued Apple and five major publishers in an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the companies colluded to fix e-book prices. Just hours later, though, government officials announced that they have reached proposed settlements with three of the five publishers—though the legal fight will continue for the two other publishers […]
More Americans are reading e-books than ever before, on more kinds of devices, a new report from the Pew Research Center has found. That news won’t come as a shock, given the rapid spread of e-readers and tablet computers and the rise of e-content. What might be a surprise, though: The report contains good news […]
ATLANTA, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Elsevier encourages continued planning and preparation for key coding update MarketWatchFull Article
Apple’s recent release of free software to build e-textbooks has brought attention to custom publishing of academic materials. But Apple’s software, called iBooks Author, lacks easy tools for multiple authors to collaborate on a joint textbook project. Since most books aren’t written in isolation, two new publishing platforms seek to make that group collaboration easier.Full […]
When students groan about buying traditional textbooks, their grievances follow a familiar refrain: They’re expensive and usually boring. So this fall, a team of Temple University professors heeded those complaints and abandoned the old-fashioned texts for low-cost alternatives that they built from scratch.Wired CampusFull Article
