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…
eBooks and eReaders
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…
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…
Campus survives the ‘iPad jitters’
Putting Apple iPads in the hands of every student and professor on a PC-based campus required some convincing, but a year later, Seton Hill University officials said the…
Review: 5 eBook readers for less than $175
When Amazon.com's ground-breaking Kindle eBook reader came out in 2007, it cost $399. Now, some eReaders, including the most recent Kindle entry, can be had for just north…
Site lets college students find low-price textbooks, quickly
Students’ hours-long web searches for cheap textbooks might be over.
Feds offer more guidance on eReader accessibility in college
Federal rules for how eReaders can legally be used by colleges and universities were clarified by the U.S. Education Department (ED) May 26 after advocates for blind and…