At its New York event, Apple's Phil Schiller just revealed that the tech giant has big plans to reinvent the educational textbook market and the technology that underpins their use in lessons.READ»
Apple has a press event tomorrow--and not on the West Coast, but in New York City. It's something different. Something new. Something, we think, to do with education, textbooks, and major disruption. Will school ever be the same?READ»
A crusader from Attrition.org has found that an alarmingly high number of books written by computer security experts are nearly 100% copied from other sources. What does that say about the industry?READ»
Students can save up to 80% on college textbooks by signing up to rent them on the Kindle. Here's what the move says about Amazon's plans for e-readers and tablets going forward. READ»
Your backpack is about to get (much) lighter. Heavy paper textbooks are about to become collectors' items thanks to the instant popularity of tablets, and a number of other e-book market trends. READ»
The iPad may soon be lightening the load of middle-school students in Georgia. Could such a move further complicate the state's stance on teaching evolution?READ»
"While no one was looking, someone revolutionized the textbook," says Kno about its twin-screened tablet PC. Is this just misplaced overconfidence? Deep pocketed VC backers think not.
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Macmillan's newly announced DynamicBooks textbooks are a huge change for the stodgy, ultra-conservative world of academic writing. The digital textbooks give professors the power to reorder chapters, insert extra reading, delete ...READ»
It's now mere days until Apple's "latest creation" press event, and the rumor mill is spinning fast enough to generate its own rumor about the new Apple tablet being powered by a built-in rumor mill. We're hearing about names, ...READ»
The Kindle may be the king of e-readers, but it has a long way to go before being accepted as an acceptable replacement for textbooks. When Amazon's device was introduced at Princeton for classroom assignments recently, it received ...READ»
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