Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it ...

Company announces today iBooks 2, a "new textbook experience" for the iPad and Apple's attempt to bury traditional schoolbooks. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

Digital textbooks debut for some courses at MU COLUMBIA, Mo. -- In some University of Missouri classes, the big, expensive college textbook is no longer necessary. Students instead can buy and ...

Students lamenting the high prices and sheer weight of textbooks now have an alternative. A leading textbook wholesaler chose Princeton as one of 10 universities to test the Universal Digital Textbook ...

Just as more and more people are reading books on their tablets, so are students turning to digital textbooks to learn. Kno co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Osman Rashid hopes to be at the front ...

Bookstores at 10 colleges across the country will begin selling access to digital textbooks this month in what promoters say is the first large-scale effort to make electronic textbooks available ...

AMES, Iowa – College professors and instructors can learn a lot from the chapters of a digital textbook that they assign students to read. Reynol Junco, an associate professor in Iowa State University ...

App State introduced a digital textbook rental system in 2021, which has quickly become popular among students. Nearly 99 percent of the student population has utilized the program, which has resulted ...

Apple's education announcement last month seems to have stoked the fire under those who want to see the move to digital textbooks -- a move that is seen as inevitable, if only because that seems to be ...

Teachers in Coon Rapids, Minnesota had all but disposed of their school district’s statistics textbook, constantly replacing its outdated information with their own notes and homework problems. When ...

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