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Could Google Books ruling affect college textbook market?

April 11, 2011April 8, 2011 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Advocates for Google’s massive digital library say the online repository is inevitable, despite recent setbacks, and could present an entirely new option for college textbooks.

Google putting its digital library to the test

July 16, 2010July 15, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

Google Inc. is giving researchers nearly a half-million dollars to test the academic value of its rapidly growing online library.

Librarians: Many faculty members embrace digitization

July 15, 2010July 13, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

The sentimentality that college faculty members have for the old-fashioned campus library isn’t the norm at some institutions with vast digital libraries, higher-education librarians and technologists say—countering recent…

University of Minnesota sends books to Google for digitization

April 26, 2010 by Meris Stansbury

The University of Minnesota libraries are sending their first shipment of books to be digitized to Google this month as part of the Google books project, reports the…

Fending off the ‘digital decay’ of archived resources, bit by bit

March 16, 2010 by Meris Stansbury

As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated, reports the New York Times.

Publishers win a bout in eBook Price Fight

February 10, 2010 by Meris Stansbury

With the impending arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book prices, publishers have managed to take some control--at least temporarily--of…

Stanford affirms support for Google Book Search

February 9, 2010February 8, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

The U.S. Justice Department’s concerns about Google Book Search persist, but not everyone shares those concerns: Stanford University last week affirmed its support of the expansive online library…

Electronic books now come in snack sizes

February 8, 2010 by Meris Stansbury

Who has time to read a whole book anymore? That’s the thinking behind a new publishing venture by the FT Press, a unit of Pearson, which has introduced…

Can Apple’s tablet spark a textbook revolution?

January 27, 2010January 26, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Can the release of Apple's eReader tablet do for textbooks what the iPod did for music: combine an online store for purchasing books with sleek hardware that holds…

Could Google Books ruling affect college textbook market?

Google putting its digital library to the test

Librarians: Many faculty members embrace digitization

University of Minnesota sends books to Google for digitization

Fending off the ‘digital decay’ of archived resources, bit by bit

Publishers win a bout in eBook Price Fight

Stanford affirms support for Google Book Search

Electronic books now come in snack sizes

Can Apple’s tablet spark a textbook revolution?

Seven Generations Education Institute to Modernize Technology Operations with Ellucian Colleague SaaS

Felician University Names New President

Worcester Polytechnic Institute and All Campus Partner to Manage Online Degree Programs

The BIMM Group Selects Ellucian Cloud Solutions

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