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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
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 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 19, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
XanEdu Buys MetaText from OCLC The acquisition will allow XanEdu to combine its curriculum products and tools for the higher education market with MetaText's substantial collection of digital textbooks from leading publishers such as Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, and Houghton Mifflin. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib
October 2004
John Cox |
E-Books: Challenges and Opportunities Where content matches need, e-books can support the academic mission effectively, saving time and adding value as a collective online reference resource rather than a set of individual titles. |
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
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. |
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
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
April 2, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
Expanding Options for Ebooks Here are some of the recently launched services that are aiming to redefine the book experience. |
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
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2001 |
Textbooks to Become Interactive Houghton Mifflin and netLibrary have launched a digital textbook initiative to create electronic versions of Houghton Mifflin College Division texts. By the fall of 2001, electronic textbooks will be available on a Web-based learning platform called MetaText... |
Information Today
December 6, 2012 |
Ingram's VitalSource Platform Gains 60 New Publishers Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Content Group's etextbook solution for publishers, academic institutions, and students, announced that 60 new publishers have added more than 35,000 new digital textbooks and online course materials to its VitalSource Bookshelf platform. |
D-Lib
July 2001
Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users... |
Information Today
September 29, 2011
Dan Tonkery |
Amazon Launches Library Ebook Lending Support for Kindle and an All-New Kindle Family Support for ebook lending is a major departure for Amazon and is an important milestone for libraries. Previously, Amazon only sold ebooks and did not support ebook lending for libraries even though there has been significant demand from libraries. |
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. |
Inc.
April 1, 2010
Sarah Kessler |
The Race for E-textbook Readers Carrying hefty textbooks may soon be history. |
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
October 2001
Paula J. Hane |
ebrary Announces Partnership with McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing ebrary has announced that McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing, a unit of the McGraw-Hill Companies' McGraw-Hill Education Division, is adopting ebrary's ebrarian solution for Primis Online, its online service that allows faculty members to create customized e-books... |
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. |
Information Today
March 2009
Marji McClure |
Turning a New Page in Ebooks Amazon brought renewed attention to ebooks, especially in the consumer market, with its 2007 launch of the Amazon Kindle and, most recently, the February release of the Amazon Kindle 2. |
Information Today
May 6, 2013 |
ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition. |
Information Today
October 17, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
Kansas Leading the Fight for Fair Ebook Access in Libraries The Kansas case brings up a variety of important issues and problems with ebooks today: The issues of platform, buyers rights, and the very structure of the ebook industry. |
Information Today
June 16, 2011 |
New Britannica Ebook Service for Schools and Libraries Students in elementary school through college can easily access hundreds of high-quality books on the subjects they're studying through a new web-based ebooks service available to schools and libraries from Britannica Digital Learning. |
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. |
Searcher
December 2011
Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage. |
Information Today
September 12, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Business Collection EBSCO Information Services launched eBook Business Collection, a new assortment of ebooks for academic libraries from publishers such as Wiley and Cambridge University Press. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
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
August 6, 2012 |
ebrary Enhances Strategic Ebook Acquisition Program for Public Libraries To enable public libraries to affordably and strategically meet the nonfiction ebook needs of patrons, ebrary, a ProQuest business, added more than 9,000 new titles from publishers including Bentham Science and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt across acquisition models. |
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. |
Information Today
April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
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 25, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Gale Announces New Initiatives Gale VP and general manager Jim Draper notes, "Our new products and services ... have broadened our scope beyond traditional library resources to help libraries solve real and emerging problems and create tangible outcomes for their users." |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2010
Nathan Alderman |
College Libraries Saying Buh-Bye to Books? Electronic texts replace dusty tomes at more universities. |
Information Today
January 31, 2013
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Adds Ebook Library (EBL) to Its Collection ProQuest signed an agreement to acquire Ebook Library from Australia-based Ebooks Corp. Ltd. After the transfer is completed over the next few weeks, Ebook Library will begin its merger with ebrary, acquired by ProQuest in 2011. |
The Motley Fool
January 19, 2012
Evan Niu |
Apple Just Revolutionized Education Apple unveils digital textbooks for the iPad, which will change education forever. |
Information Today
July 25, 2011 |
NetLibrary Ebooks Now Integrated on EBSCOhost Platform EBSCO Publishing's collection of more than 300,000 ebook and audiobook titles (formerly from NetLibrary) is now integrated on EBSCOhost. |
Information Today
October 1, 2013
Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebooks Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons. |
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. |
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
April 12, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Tsunami -- From Antitrust to Burgeoning Sales The ebook tsunami is still in play; new issues, problems, and possibilities occur almost daily. We can do little more than watch, wonder, and improvise as the forces of innovation and commercialism work through this time of change in publishing. |
Information Today
June 26, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
Enhanced SpringerLink Offers eBook Collection Springer, which claims to be the world's largest scientific, technical and medical book publisher, has announced it will offer its complete publishing program online and on one integrated platform. |
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. |
