CourseSmart today announced that it has saved students more than $ 100M
on etextbooks... [Read more...]
Courtsmart Releases Statistics
on eTextbooks — There are plenty of online companies that sell digital textbooks aimed at University and K12 students.
CourseSmart is one of the industry's largest companies that focuses
on etextbooks.
The Galaxy Note 10.1 is an ideal learning tool that allows students to take notes directly
on an eTextbook whilst in lectures, or research the Web at the same time as writing an essay.
Not exact matches
SEATTLE --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jan. 22, 2015 --(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Amazon.com today announced KDP EDU, a new segment of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) designed to help educators and authors easily prepare, publish, and promote
eTextbooks and other educational content for students to access
on a broad range of devices, including Fire tablets, iPad, iPhone, Android smartphones and tablets, Mac, and PC.
Educators and educational content authors can easily prepare, publish, and promote
eTextbooks and other educational content that students can access
on Fire tablets, iPad, iPhone, Android tablets and smartphones, Mac, and PC
Currently, only EPUB 2 titles can be uploaded, with no timeline
on rich media content for kids books, or
eTextbooks.
Plus
etextbooks are coming
on the market at a slower pace.
The economic realities of earning a college education make it paramount that all students find savings, and this program ensures that students with print related disabilities can not only enjoy the cost benefits, but also capitalize
on the countless digital efficiencies of
eTextbooks that their peers have appreciated for years,» said Sean Devine, CEO of CourseSmart, in a press release today.
I definitely think that
etextbooks will catch
on, but it might take a little time, similar to how the trend to rent textbooks has been catching
on recently.
Reinforcing the continuing importance of
on - campus bookstores — even in the digital age — nearly 60 percent of
eTextbook purchases were made in the Barnes & Noble College bookstore.
The jetBook Color
eTextbook Tablet breaks through the educational market and offers students and teachers the ability to save money
on books while providing unlimited teaching resources.
VitalSource provides students and educators access to the world's largest catalog of digital learning materials which are consumed
on Bookshelf ®, the company's exclusive
eTextbook platform.
«First time students were able to enjoy the benefits of
etextbooks, like a savings of 50 % over print, along with instant, anytime - anywhere access to their course materials
on a web - enabled device so they don't have to buy a specific device.
CourseSmart is one of the leading
etextbook companies that focuses
on renting ebooks to students, with Pearson, McGraw - Hill and Macmillan as the owners.
«There is no competition
on the market that comes close to what Kno offers, considering we have over 100,000 discounted
eTextbooks and more than 60 interactive features that instantly simplify learning for students,» said Kno co-founder and CTO Babur Habib.
Today Amazon announced the release of a new digital textbook creator tool for educators and authors to easily create digital textbooks, called
eTextbooks, and other educational content to promote and sell
on the Kindle Store.
Amazon also offers
eTextbook rentals
on select
eTextbooks.
Many of the
eTextbooks are available like regular Kindle ebooks
on Kindle ereaders, Fire tablets, and Kindle apps for -LSB-...]
First of all, you can find quite a lot of
eTextbooks on Amazon, but not all textbooks are available there, so I would recommend you to check them at
eTextbooks on Amazon.
And by the way, you state that
eTextbooks «aren't offered
on Kindle devices,» but they are
on Fire tablets.
What if you're a student and you've got an
etextbook as well as another ebook
on the same topic.
The same home screen will boast an application list based
on student's grade and classes with the following topics: My Library,
eTextbooks, Classwork and Homework, Oxford Reading Support, Languages and Games, Science and Math.
Clearly it is aimed at a very specialist corner of the
eTextbook market, and equally clearly no one really knows yet what impact it will make
on the market.
On a broader note the whole subject of eTextbook's is one that is in major transition right now and no one has come on to the market to really change the ga
On a broader note the whole subject of
eTextbook's is one that is in major transition right now and no one has come
on to the market to really change the ga
on to the market to really change the game
LJ's third annual Ebook third annual ebook summit «The Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks, and Beyond» featured insightful presentations and lively discussions
on topics ranging from ebook discovery, how ebooks have affected collection development strategies, the growth of
etextbooks, and a post-mortem
on the industry's response to the Research Works Act early this year.
If your
etextbooks are from CourseSmart or another online textbook company, you can view those in a regular browser — you should be able to use the one that comes installed
on the Nook or you can get a different one through GooglePlay.