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Carla Shinn

20 different ways to buy ebooks, digital comics and etextbooks - 28 views

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shared by Carla Shinn on 08 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 08 Oct 13
     
    20 of the most popular destinations for buying, downloading and renting digital books, comics and textbooks
Robin Cicchetti

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 11 views

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shared by Robin Cicchetti on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • Why electronic copies? Well, they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts, making a bulk purchase more feasible
  • An Indiana company called Courseload hopes to make the model more widespread, by serving as a broker for colleges willing to impose the requirement on students. And it is not alone.
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  • The real champions of the change are the college officials signing the deals.
  • "Our game plan is to bring the cost of textbooks down by 75 to 80 percent."
  • In its standard model, Flat World offers free access to its textbooks while students are online. If students want to download a copy to their own computers, they must pay $24.95 for a PDF (a print edition costs about $30)
  • Robin Cicchetti on 27 Oct 10
     
    Unusually informative article on the state of digital texts in 2010. Short and concise. Good info for librarian tech leaders.
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