Etextbooks

Teaching With Tablets: For Young Readers, It's Interaction vs. Distraction

Kirk Cheyfitz | Posted 03.25.2012

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Kirk Cheyfitz

Sticking to retreads makes no use of all the powerful technological innovations now at our command. But creating tablet cartoons has the potential to kill off reading altogether.

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Memo to the Bibliophiles: Books Are a Technology Too

John Bergquist | Posted 03.24.2012

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John Bergquist

I find myself troubled by the folks who seem to treat books as a kind of idol. It is almost always associated with a notion that books are natural and an iPad is un-natural.

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Jason Gilbert

Ex-Apple Exec Wants To Make Textbooks Like Computers

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 10.29.2011

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Inkling, a digital textbook company started by ex-Apple education exec Matt MacInnis, wants to make textbooks more like computers. MacInnis told Hu...

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Jason Gilbert

Can This Startup Become The LinkedIn For College Students?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 10.18.2011

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Chegg, the largest website for textbook rentals in the United States, is going digital. The textbook-disseminating giant has announced that digita...

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How Much Will Students Really Save Using Amazon’s eTextbooks?

time.com | Posted 09.20.2011

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It’s a very frustrating part of the college experience. You pay more than $100 for a textbook, haul it home and then never open it. ...

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Why Do Students Still Cling To Paper Textbooks?

nytimes.com | LISA W. FODERARO | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The screen won't go blank," said Faton Begolli, a sophomore from Boston. "There can't be a virus. It wouldn't be the same without books. They've defi...

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Macmillan's DynamicBooks Lets Professors Rewrite E-Textbooks

nytimes.com | MOTOKO RICH | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks, Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called Dynami...

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