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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University announced today, Feb. 8, an agreement with Harvard Business Publishing to deliver eTexts for students on all IU campuses. Harvard Business Publishing is the leading provider of teaching materials for business management education. Indiana UniversityPress Release
Using Rice’s Connexions platform, OpenStax will offer free course materials for five common introductory classes.The textbooks are open to classes anywhere and organizers believe the programs could save students $90 million in the next five years if the books capture 10 percent of the national market.Inside Higher EdFull Article
extbooks continue to account for a large chunk of college expenses — an average of $1,168 per student annually at four-year public colleges, according to CollegeBoard. Some U.S. universities are searching for ways to keep more money in students’ wallets by making affordable digital textbooks readily available.ConvergeFull Article
On its face, matching iPad textbooks with college students seems almost perfect. But Apple’s plans for its new iBookstore, from the way it has structured book purchases to its development strategy for multimedia e-books, doesn’t seem like it’s well suited for the college textbook market at all — if it even has that target in […]
Starting school means a slew of preparation activities. Buying school supplies used to be fun, but ever since textbooks showed up on the checklist, school supply shopping became dreaded.The Crimson WhiteFull Article
Apple’s education announcement is all over the news, with suggestions ranging from interactive textbooks to ebook publishing tools (gee, those sound familiar). Some, however, say that it’s all over-hyped—so clearly we should be looking forward to the next next Apple announcement. The remainders for Tuesday, January 17, 2012 are almost excited enough to consider going […]
In a session at the 2011 Educause conference in October, Bradley Wheeler, the chief information officer at Indiana University, issued a challenge to his colleagues. Unless universities assert their power as customers, the vendors that sell them products and services will continue squeezing those institutions for cash while dictating the terms under which they go […]
The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors’ lectures. “It’s not that I didn’t want to buy,” he says. “Sometimes, I just didn’t have the money for a $200 book.” VSU, a 129-year-old historically black college in Petersburg, Va., knows Martin isn’t the only one. More […]
This report looks closely at how libraries are servicing distance learning programs. It looks at how these programs have impacted library purchasing, particularly of eBooks and audio visual resources, and at how libraries are providing information literacy courses and tutorials to students at a distance. SOURCE: Research and MarketsRead the Report’s Summary
