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Will Amazon’s $200 tablet spark interest among schools?
Amazon’s unveiling of the Kindle Fire, a tablet computer that costs a few hundred dollars less than Apple’s iPad, sends a bright-hot message: The online retailer is ready to rival…
Amazon’s tablet serious challenge to Apple’s iPad: analysts
Amazon.com Inc, which revolutionized reading with its Kindle eReader, is expected to unveil a tablet computer this week that analysts say will seriously challenge Apple's market dominating iPad, Reuters reports.…
Indiana University tries to drive down textbook costs with eBooks
Many Indiana University (IU) students will see their textbook costs plummet starting in the spring 2012 semester after IU officials agreed to make low-cost electronic textbooks more available on the…
Amazon takes publishers a new step into the future?
One upon a time, you might tell your children, there were buildings called libraries, CNET reports. A resident of a city or town, you would explain, could walk into one…
A classroom in your eBook?
Besides notes, highlights, and web links, an eBook company has introduced interactive and social media aspects to its tablet-based tomes, becoming the latest to blend textbooks with classroom-like chats.…
Ex-Apple exec wants to make textbooks like computers
Inkling, a digital textbook company started by ex-Apple education exec Matt MacInnis, wants to make textbooks more like computers, reports the Huffington Post. …
Chegg moves beyond textbook rentals
Online textbook rental company Chegg wants college students to visit its website all year round, not just in the hectic first few days of every semester.…
College students can now rent textbooks electronically from Amazon
A month or so before back-to-school season begins in earnest, Amazon has jumped into the lucrative college textbook market with Kindle Textbook Rental, Mashable reports.…
eBook revolution upends a publishing course
For decades, even after it was renamed and relocated from its original home at Radcliffe, the Columbia Publishing Course seemed unchanging, a genteel summer tradition in the book business, a…
Security holes discovered in iPhones, iPads
A new security hole has opened up in Apple Inc.'s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, raising alarms about the susceptibility of some of the world's hottest tech gadgets to…