digital textbooks

Tech giant Apple revealed its new digital textbook initiative on Thursday, joining with major publishers on a quest to replace heavy stacks of schoolbooks with iPads. There will obviously be resistance. Here are three reasons Apple's move will succeed in spite of it.

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...

Here's a nice one to show Dad your appreciation on Father's Day. Kobo, the cheapest e-book reader thus far is debuting on June 17, but Borders will let you pre-order now. So what if it doesn't have Wi-Fi or spot 3g wireless, at $149.99 it's one heck of a deal (compare it to $259 for Amazon's...

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...