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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
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
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2007
Katrina Chan |
Back to School: Textbooks for Sale Before you hit the books, hit the Internet. Hundreds of dollars a year can be saved by buying college textbooks and supplies online. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2006
Kevin Hunter |
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. |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
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. |
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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
December 21, 2009 |
Flat World Knowledge Partners with Bookshare to Make Free College Textbooks Accessible to People with Print Disabilities Flat World Knowledge, a publisher of expert-authored, open content college textbooks, became the first dedicated college textbook publisher to supply its digital textbooks to Bookshare |
T.H.E. Journal
December 9, 2009
Scott Aronowitz |
Federal Grant Aims To Make Open Content Texts More Accessible With the help of a $100,000 supplemental grant from the United States Department of Education Office of Special Education, Bookshare will begin to make open content textbooks accessible to readers with print disabilities. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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
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. |
Inc.
April 1, 2010
Sarah Kessler |
The Race for E-textbook Readers Carrying hefty textbooks may soon be history. |
Information Today
July 4, 2013
George H. Pike |
Cengage Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: `Normal Business Operations' Will Continue The bankruptcy petition is part of an effort to restructure its outstanding debt, with a goal of eliminating as much as $4 billion of debt. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 3, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Schools Amazon The iPad may be the digital textbook of tomorrow. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note. |
CIO
September 1, 2001
Joe Kendall |
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... |
Information Today
April 1, 2014
George H. Pike |
Cengage Learning Emerges From Bankruptcy Cengage filed for bankruptcy in late June 2013, when it became unable to restructure nearly $6 billion in debt. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2010
Nathan Alderman |
College Libraries Saying Buh-Bye to Books? Electronic texts replace dusty tomes at more universities. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2000 |
New Releases - Hayes Software Systems Software Helps Manage Textbook Distribution and Discipline Procedures |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2004
Anthony Paustian |
Des Moines Area Community College Utilizes Handhelds for On-the-Go Education As students come to expect more options and greater flexibility in the delivery of course content, schools and colleges need to respond. |
Information Today
April 15, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
Thomson Expands InfoTrac College Edition In a move designed to provide better information resources for students, Thomson Corp. has expanded the online information available to purchasers of textbooks from Thomson publishers. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
May 13, 2013 |
Coursera Announces Pilot Program With Publishers Coursera, a massive open online course provider, announced a pilot program with several of the top higher education publishers to expand the availability of their high-quality content and resources. |
Information Today
March 21, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
SAGE Strikes Gold with Andy Field's New Statistics Textbook/Ebook Sussex University's Andy Field has found his way through the challenges and opportunities of textbook creation brilliantly to create an award-winning and wildly popular brand in the unlikely area of quantitative research methods. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2003
Chuck Grant |
Math Sites Offer Helpful Homework Solutions If students and teachers search the Web for "math homework help," you may be surprised by all of the free, constructively helpful sites that are available. |
Information Today
July 15, 2010
Dan Tonkery |
Cengage Learning Announces Streamlined Operating Structure So what do librarians think about this move? |
Information Today
May 27, 2010 |
Knovel Adds Interactive Problem Sets to Popular Engineering Textbook Working closely with publisher Cengage Learning, Knovel has added value to the core text by presenting a unique set of problems and solutions in each chapter. |
InsideFlyer
September 2008 |
Driving Miles The best ways to top up your miles and points when renting cars. |
Information Today
December 2, 2014
Abby Clobridge |
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. |
Information Today
March 2, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Open Educational Resources (OER) and Libraries Openness is increasingly a characteristic of many sectors and technologies -- open access, open library, open source, open standards, open platforms, and more. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Here's Why the Rental Market Is a Disaster Textbooks might say rental rates should have risen lately. Here's why that's wrong. |
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. |
