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Digital textbooks finally a viable, cheap textbook solution
11:00AM 8/13/2010
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...
Digital textbooks to account for 1 in 5 textbook sales in 2014
2:30PM 4/20/2010
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...
For students, a textbook with that iPhone?
7:00AM 8/10/2009
The Apple (AAPL) iPhone App store already has over 60,000 products and one billion downloads. It is about to get a new set of products that should do especially well. iPhone users will be able to download up to 7,000 different textbooks onto their handsets, making "education everywhere" a...
Amazon's (AMZN) unveiling of the Kindle DX, designed in part for digital textbooks, is probably the first exposure many people have had to this revolution in publishing, but Amazon is not first to the table with the idea. In fact, it faces strong competition from an established market presence,...
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