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An unlikely partnership to build the e-textbook business
Apr 30, 2012
When you think ebooks, the iPad and the Kindle come to mind -- not Microsoft Windows. But Microsoft's been losing enough ground in tablets and e-readers that today it's decided to spend $300 million to invest in Barnes & Noble's Nook digital-book business.
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Microsoft invests in Nook
Apr 30, 2012
Add another player to the digital textbook market. Microsoft announced at $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble's Nook reader.
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Apple’s new textbook program seems to be going well
Jan 23, 2012
What's your book going to be about? I'm thinking a zombie-kangaroo-road-trip thingy will sell well.
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Are classrooms prepared for e-textbooks?
Jan 19, 2012
Apple is expected to announce its entry into the world of e-textbooks. But how have digital textbooks fared in the classroom so far?
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What grade do e-textbooks get? Incomplete
Jan 19, 2012
Apple prepares to step into murky waters.
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Rumor roundup (yee-ha!) on tomorrow’s Apple event
Jan 18, 2012
Rumblings about textbooks.
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Bye-bye big backpacks?
Jan 12, 2012
An Apple event next week. Commence mouth foaming, nerds.
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Textbooks just became cheaper and more social
Aug 10, 2011
A company called Kno has been distributing iPad versions of college textbooks since June. The company says it has 100,000 textbooks digitized and...
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Fewer textbooks to carry with Kindle?
Aug 25, 2008
The ARS Technica website has a report that Amazon may enter the college textbook market with a new version of its Kindle electronic reading device....
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Open-source textbooks
Aug 18, 2008
In response to rising textbook prices, some academics are writing their own textbooks -- for free. From an article in the Los Angeles Times:...
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