Is Apple learning a lesson over the Steve Jobs dream: iPad textbooks? | The Drum - 1 views
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"Apple's next big idea of digital textbooks in classrooms equipped with iPads has run into a snag: cost."
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Yes indeed. Some of us pointed this out a while back (harrumph). Gotta love that Apple spokesperson's response.
Cal State Announces Deal on E-Textbooks | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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"Following a major e-textbook pilot last year, the California State University System announced Wednesday that it has cut a deal with Cengage Learning that could give students steep discounts on that publisher's e-textbooks."
U Cincinnati Chooses Electronic Text To Reduce Student Costs -- Campus Technology - 0 views
MITx opens registration on 'interactive' online course | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
Innovation centers seek to address high textbook prices | Stanford Daily - 0 views
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"Stanford's CodeX, also known as the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and MediaX have been working on a "Print on Demand" system - a new way to lower prices for course materials."
E-Textbook Use Down Among College Students | Digital Book World - 0 views
What's Wrong with the Dept of Ed and FCC's Digital Textbook Push - 0 views
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"With a World Wide Web of resources, why must we adopt digital textbooks at all? Why not ditch them altogether?"
Apple No Longer Claims to Own Your Content on iBooks - 0 views
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"The new agreement makes it clear that Apple is only claiming sales exclusivity for the .ibooks format. If a user wants to tap iBooks Author to create a PDF version of an eBook, that PDF can be sold in any online bookstore, not just iBooks."
Bookstore unlikely to implement e-textbook program - The Brown Daily Herald - Serving t... - 0 views
Rice University announces open-source textbooks | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
The (Not So) Inevitable Future of Digital Textbooks | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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"Students aren't going to "suddenly" want digital textbooks because they grew up reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar on an iPad. There'll need to be more than a Digital Playbook for schools -- both at the K-12 and higher ed level -- in convincing students to "give up loyalty to the printed book." "
Ed. Dept., FCC Unveil 'Digital Textbook Playbook' - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views
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"U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski were on hand to unveil the new "Digital Textbook Playbook," a resource designed by the Digital Textbook Collaborative to help guide educators in their transition to electronic resources, as the pair headlined a national online town hall meeting for the inaugural Digital Learning Day."
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