Textbooks

There's never a dull moment on Wall Street, especially now that we're hitting 2012's first earnings season. What will help shape the week that lies ahead? Earnings and answers from banks, Google, eBay and IBM, and a big education related announcement from Apple.

With college costs rising, it's more important than ever for students to be financially savvy. Here are 15 things you need to know to graduate with a bank account at the top of your class.

For most college students, mid-November means cramming for finals and cranking out semester-end essays. But for those money-smart students who leave the library long enough to hit the mall, Black Friday sales afford the opportunity to buy stuff you'd get anyway, only much, much cheaper. Even...

University students around the country have already filed back into their classrooms and have purchased their expensive textbooks. But there's a new federal policy regarding the prices of textbooks, and how students should know the prices for all their textbooks. The Higher Education Opportunity...

Digital textbooks, or eTextbooks, have long been on the horizon of higher education, offering the promise of timely but cheap textbooks that could be carried on a single device. The debut of the iPad in April brought renewed interest in eTextbooks but the first efforts of publishers fell short in...

While Amazon sucked up most of the air in book publishing circles this week, both Scholastic and McGraw-Hill quietly posted encouraging earnings reports, with promising signs of good tidings over the next three months.

With school just around the corner, it's time to start shopping for textbooks again. Begin buying now and save some cash. With these deals going on, you can buy books without breaking the bank. College students spend an average of $700 a year on course materials, according to the National...

A new study of digital textbook adoption estimates that in five short years the adoption rate will be high enough to disrupt the traditional textbook market. 2014 is the first year that Xplana, a social learning platform, estimates the sales of digital textbooks will reach a "tipping point" that...

The Apple iPad, a tablet device from Apple that CEO Steve Jobs calls, "magical and revolutionary," will finally reach consumer hands and slide into really large pockets on Saturday, April 3. Starting Friday, March 12, consumers can place a pre-order online or visit their local Apple Store to...

Macmillan, one of the largest textbook publishers in the world, is introducing a new software for instructors that will allow them to change the online versions of textbooks that their students use. According to the New York Times, with DynamicBooks, "Professors will be able to reorganize or...