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"Through open education resources promoted by these two bills, materials would be free online or for about twenty dollars in hard copy, as stated in the background of each SB 1052 and SB 1053."

Some states, including California and Washington, are passing bills to mandate the use and creation of open textbooks.

Bookstores know their customer needs are changing and so do we! We started selling our All Access Pass (AAP) in the fall of 2011. Since then we've got a lot of positive feedback from students for the ease of use and instant access meeting their demands for multiple, affordable choices they can access anytime, anywhere, on any device . We now want to bring our bookstore partners into the fold by allowing them to sell All Access Pass redemption codes in their store. The All Access Pass helps bookstores stay competitive, better serve customers, and be "paper-lite."

Education-focused tablet sold for around $150 in India.

Courseload's seamlessly integrated platform delivers course materials through any web-enabled device (computers, laptops, iPads and Android devices, smart-phones, etc.) allowing all course material to be located in a single place. With digital tools that enable search, highlighting, annotating, and creating links to online content, the technology is easy-to-access and simple to use. And, it costs one-third the price of traditional textbooks - the same textbooks sourced from the same publishers that you use today.

Carl says that we should familiarize ourselves with Courseload, the digital textbook Indiana uses.

"STEPP was launched by the Alternative Media Access Center, in partnership with CourseSmart and the AccessText Network, through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DoEd), Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). This program is designed to meet the textbook rental needs of any postsecondary student and aims to help improve low-cost access to higher education textbooks for all students, including those with print-related disabilities. "

Textbooks By Course | New & Used Books, eBooks, Rent Books Help your student body save big on textbooks. Create a completely free textbook exchange to let students trade books to each other.

Apple is aggressively moving to make the iPad cheaper and cheaper to build while eyeing the situation where tablets in general, and iPads in particular, are nearly ubiquitous. When you understand these trends, the iBooks Author / iBooks 2 / iTunesU App strategy for education makes a lot more sense.