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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
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
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
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
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
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 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. |
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. |
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 14, 2013 |
EDUCAUSE and Internet2 to Launch Etextbook Pilot Courseload, CourseSmart, McGraw-Hill Education and more than 50 publishers are participating in a pilot in fall 2013 to further provide campuses nationwide an opportunity to explore, evaluate, and advance the transition from traditional media models, including textbooks, to electronic platforms. |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
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
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
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
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. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2011
Katie Spence |
Bye Buy Books, Hello Digital! In the digital era, do these publishers have what it takes? |
Inc.
April 1, 2010
Sarah Kessler |
The Race for E-textbook Readers Carrying hefty textbooks may soon be history. |
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
June 4, 2007 |
XanEdu Introduces Multimedia Content in Course Packs In partnership with Harvard Business School Publishing and Darden Business Publishing, XanEdu will provide digital video supplements and other multimedia case content to college and university business faculty and programs. |
Information Today
November 4, 2010 |
Gilbane Group Report Reveals Publishers' Digital Realities The report explores the book publishing industry to reveal how leading publishers are modifying their businesses to adjust to the realities of today's digital and mobile-centric society. |
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
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
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Wiley Books a Profit The book publisher reports slightly lower earnings as revenues rise. Investors, take note. |
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
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. |
Information Today
July 15, 2010
Dan Tonkery |
Cengage Learning Announces Streamlined Operating Structure So what do librarians think about this move? |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 5, 2010
Julia Hanna |
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing Book publishing is changing before our very eyes, even if the industry itself is fighting the transition with every comma it can muster. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2012
Rebecca Lipman |
Publishing Stocks: Will Apple Lead the Textbook Digital Revolution? How do you think Apple's plan will affect the future of these companies? |
Information Today
April 24, 2008
Corilee Christou |
Publishing Technology, PLC Powers BBC Monitoring Library Publishers must adapt to survive and embrace all forms of content delivery and all media. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2002
Christopher Hons |
Big Ten School in Cyberspace Penn State University's "World Campus" initiative has grown steadily -- not only in terms of its size and scope, but also in the level of respect accorded it... |
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
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
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. |
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
October 24, 2011 |
Cengage Learning to Improve Interoperability With Sakai Courseware Management Platform The collaboration leverages the power of Cengage Learning's MindLinks integration to deliver improved ease of use for students, instructors, and administrators. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2004
Phil Wohl |
Scholastic Must Hit the Books The company must leverage its growth segment-- educational publishing-- before considering them as an investment. |
Information Today
October 18, 2012 |
HarperCollins, Publishing Technology to Build Global Product Manager HarperCollins Publishers, a subsidiary of News Corp., announced that it will roll out a new global publishing system, one of the largest undertakings of its kind to be implemented by a trade publisher. |
Global Services
January 3, 2008
Adyasha Sinha |
Outside the Covers With various processes, from the traditional IT to procurement and even editorial, being offshored, publishing no longer remains a conservative industry. And, in the wake of this outsourcing, the Readers Digest-Williams Lea partnership is a trendsetter. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2010
Anand Chokkavelu |
Roundtable: Insights From a Company That Impressed Us Reflections from our visit with media powerhouse Pearson. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2001 |
Cornell University Employs New Digital Tech. Customized, on-demand publishing of course packs and other scholarly materials has been more theory than reality for most institutions. Until now, it has been difficult to achieve the quality demanded by educators, and updating custom-published texts has been difficult and time-consuming... |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2011
John Grgurich |
This Stock Is at the Top of Its Industry Pearson is a publishing company keeping up with the digital age. |
CAUSE/EFFECT
Vol 22 Num 2 1999
Dorothy A. Frayer |
Creating a Campus Culture to Support a Teaching and Learning Revolution How can a college or university best support the faculty in the process of rethinking courses and curricula to unleash the truly revolutionary potential for technology to enhance learning?... |
Information Today
March 6, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Wiley InterScience Introduces Author Resources... Emerald Group Publishing Debuts Product to Help Community Colleges... Thomson Pharma Offers Ability to Analyze Clinical Information... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2007
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Another Digital Divide Looms Districts want digitally based content-publishers say obstacles stand in the way. Can we work to bring the two sides together? |
Information Today
May 14, 2012 |
Cengage Learning and Blackboard Introduce Digital Content Integration An integrated solution gives instructors and students streamlined access to Cengage Learning's digital learning solutions and core curriculum content directly through the Blackboard Learn learning management system. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000
Jacquelyn Barker Tulloch |
Sophisticated Technology Offers Higher Education Options Ironically, the use of traditional terminology associated with distance learning is diminishing at a time when the use of technology is gaining ground. Meanwhile, the lines are blurring between distance education and traditional classroom learning... |
