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Tuition costs are skyrocketing, rising by double digits at some major campuses. About 47% of students receive financial aid and 57% are working at least part time to make ends meet, found textbook-rental company Chegg in a recent survey. So, it's no surprise that today's college students are more budget-conscious than ever.

Online retailer Amazon and toy company Mattel's HIT Entertainment have partnered together to bring HIT Entertainment's popular children's cartoon Fireman Sam exclusively to the online retailer. Amazon will show episodes of Fireman Sam via streaming and will also have them available for download in Amazon Instant Video, Prime Instant Video, and FreeTime Unlimited. Amazon will also show related merchandise, including toys, ebooks, games, apparel, footwear, lunch boxes and more.

With US politics swimming in so much corporate money that it's pretty much an oligarchy, it can be hard to keep track of which particular set of lobbyists is trying to milk more cash out of health care, fossil fuels, and other very important issues from one week to the next.

This kid taught himself to solder electronics and write code, then designed and built his own open-source smartwatch. All hail the Internet.

Public libraries has the rest of the crowd beat with their eBook stockades.

Many libraries use the Overdrive mobile app for downloading eBooks, which is a useful service. We use it to put eBooks on Kindle for our kids. The user experience in that app for searching, however, is TERRIBLE.