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Vendors link e-textbook content with LMS software

May 24, 2010May 21, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

As digital textbooks become more common on higher-ed campuses, providers are making it easy for professors to share textbook notes and resources with students through their class learning…

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Go to college, get a free iPad

May 19, 2010 by Denny Carter

Want a free iPad? Enroll at Illinois Institute of Technology, and you’ll get one, NBC Chicago reports. IIT has announced that the school will be providing free Apple…

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Why universities should hate the iPad

May 18, 2010 by Denny Carter

If students embrace textbooks on the iPad, college bookstores might lose their shirts, CNN reports.

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iPad tablet’s popularity has rivals scrambling to roll out competing devices

May 13, 2010 by Denny Carter

The success of Apple Inc.'s iPad has prompted other tech companies to plunge into the market for tablet computers, with start-ups and major PC makers racing to introduce…

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Steve Jobs reportedly says the iPad’s ability to print ‘will come’

May 11, 2010 by Denny Carter

Steve Jobs reportedly replied to an Apple customer's eMail, saying that printing would eventually make its way to the iPad, the L.A. Times reports.

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eBook restrictions vex users

May 11, 2010May 7, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

As more and more eReading devices flood the market, users are beginning to feel the restrictions imposed by copyright and digital rights management (DRM)—restrictions that some fear could…

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Project puts 1 million books online for blind, dyslexic users

May 6, 2010 by Denny Carter

Even as audio versions of best-sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are blind…

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Google to start selling electronic books

May 5, 2010 by Denny Carter

Google on May 4 said it will soon begin selling electronic books that people can read on any internet-connected device, including Apple's hot-selling iPad tablet computers, AFP reports.

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After ballyhooed debut, some schools see problems with iPad

May 5, 2010May 4, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

The euphoria that greeted the Apple iPad on college campuses has waned somewhat in recent weeks, as technology officials at a handful of universities have issued warnings that…

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Online textbooks let students share notes across the globe

May 4, 2010May 3, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Florida State College at Jacksonville faculty have created 20 electronic textbooks that are accessible on a free online platform that lets students take notes in the margins, search…

Vendors link e-textbook content with LMS software

Go to college, get a free iPad

Why universities should hate the iPad

iPad tablet’s popularity has rivals scrambling to roll out competing devices

Steve Jobs reportedly says the iPad’s ability to print ‘will come’

eBook restrictions vex users

Project puts 1 million books online for blind, dyslexic users

Google to start selling electronic books

After ballyhooed debut, some schools see problems with iPad

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