Trends
- E-textbooks: less expensive, lighter, broader distribution, more frequent updating, embedded media, ...?
- Thanks, Textbooks A collection of the world's finest academic writing; ;-)
- Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students' Reading Habits CourseSmart; 11/8/2012
- Ethiopian Children Learn From Diamond Age Primers 11/1/2012
- Justices Weigh Case on Imported Textbooks 10/29/2012
- Amazon Just Beat Apple to the Classroom 10/17/2012
- Long Live Paper textbooks; 10/9/2012
- Education chief wants textbooks to become obsolete Arne Duncan; 10/2/2012
- Publishers Back African Literacy Effort With E-Books 9/6/2012
- An E-Reader Revolution for Africa? Worldreader: Wikipedia, worldreader.org; Schools in developing countries are experimenting with digital books; endless titles, spotty electricity; 6/15/2012
- Heavy Backpacks Can Spell Chronic Back Pain for Children 4/23/2012
- A New Crop of Digital Science Books Will Change the Way Students Learn iBooks2; Cachalot; 4/12/2012
- Struggling Young Readers Like Kindles 3/29/2012
- A World without Schoolteachers (homeschooling); 12/26/2011
- Textbooks Finally Take a Big Leap to Digital 11/24/2011
- Many US Schools Adding iPads, Trimming Textbooks 9/3/2011
- Don't burn the books just yet (print books accommodate a wider array of learning styles, and encourage more attentive reading and study); 8/13/2011
- Pros and cons of e-readers vs. textbooks 7/26/2011
- South Korea plans to convert all textbooks to digital, swap backpacks for tablets by 2015 7/3/2011
- Digital Textbooks Slow to Catch On (for no value-added PDF version of the print edition); 6/6/2011
- Study: Kindles Aren?t Quite All That With The Kids On Campus 5/2/2011
- E-Textbooks Get a Lift From Publishers 3/23/2011