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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.   |
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. |
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
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
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
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 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
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. |
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
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. |
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
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
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. |
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
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 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
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
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. |
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. |
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
August 1, 2013 |
VitalSource Bookshelf Offers Etextbooks to the Middle East and Africa Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, partnered with Panworld Education to make the VitalSource Bookshelf available in the Middle East and North Africa. |
Information Today
November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
Information Today
February 16, 2012 |
Ingram's Vital Source Now Working With Blackboard Ingram's Vital Source is now providing access to its etextbook platform through Blackboard Learn, one of the most widely used learning management systems. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 3, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Schools Amazon The iPad may be the digital textbook of tomorrow. |
Information Today
May 10, 2010 |
Oxford Textbook of Medicine Available Online for the First Time In print, this fifth edition of Oxford Textbook of Medicine is three volumes with just under 6,000 pages, compiled over 5 years by 750 contributors. |
Chemistry World
December 14, 2012
Gan Shermer |
Organic chemistry Textbook of Organic Chemistry by C. Pillai is aimed at undergraduate chemistry students who already have a basic knowledge of organic chemistry. |
Information Today
July 2, 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Ingram Digital and Microsoft Join in an Alliance Microsoft Corp. and Ingram Digital Group have signed an agreement whereby Microsoft's Live Search Books program will outsource high-volume scanning and digital management services to the Ingram Digital Group. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2004
Geoffrey Fletcher |
The Importance of Delivering Classroom Content Via Technology The idea of using technology to deliver content historically has been met with a cool, if not frigid, response from educators. Why? For some answers, we can look to Texas, a leader in this area -- at least from the policy perspective. |
Information Today
April 22, 2014 |
Alexander Street Press Introduces Database of Business Ebooks The new database makes 500 business etextbooks and reference materials available without digital rights restrictions to worldwide academic, public, and school libraries. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2009 |
Drill Down A new digital curriculum model allows teachers to choose their own instructional materials. The Speak Up 2008 survey gave students the power to handpick content for a new kind of online textbook. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2003
Sylvia Charp |
Engaging the Tech-Savvy Generation It's the job of every educator to use all technological resources available to keep students engaged in the classroom. But a true tech-savvy educator is continually learning from his or her students. |
Information Today
June 3, 2013 |
IngramSpark Service Debuts Publish-on-Demand Platform This online publishing tool grants independent publishers easy-to-use, cost-effective access to Ingram's global distribution network for print and ebooks. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2002
Laura Grillo Abdelnour |
Bytes of Learning's CREATE Together CREATE Together from Bytes of Learning is a multimedia software program that combines creation, collaboration, communication, problem solving and publishing tools for all grade levels. |
Salon.com
September 15, 2000
John Buell & Etta Kralovec |
Time for a recall The authors of "The End of Homework" argue that after-school assignments disrupt family life and exacerbate inequality in the schools. |
Information Today
December 17, 2015 |
Ingram Acquires Direct Sales Service Ingram Content Group acquired Aer.io, a service that helps publishers, retailers, and authors sell print books and ebooks directly via their websites, blogs, and social networks. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2000
Linda Cooper |
Online Courses - Tips for Making Them Work |
Information Today
May 30, 2013 |
Ingram Expands Publisher Services With Life Print Program Ingram Content Group, Inc. announced the launch of its Life Print program, a comprehensive solution for publishers to manage the complete life cycle of print books. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Kirsti Aho |
Teaching Digital Communication to All Students From the primary level through college, students can be prepared to communicate more effectively by teaching them the whole communication process from planning the message all the way to testing for usability. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2008
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
How Would You Like Your Content? Textbooks? Digital? Web-based? Perhaps a bit of each? The Congress on the Future of Content brings publishers and educators together in hopes of settling the issue. |
