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Learn about digital textbooks and digital textbook rentals. We cover all of the latest trends in the industry and how digital has disrupted traditional print.

Textbook Publishers file a lawsuit against pirate websites

Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson have just filed a lawsuit…

Student spending on textbooks has dropped 35%

Student spending on textbooks have dropped significantly in the past five years.…

Where to Find Free Textbooks Online?

According to a study, a single textbook can sell as high as…

Pearson abandons print textbooks and is going to focus on digital

Pearson is the largest publisher involved in textbooks for colleges and universities.…

Textbook Prices Continue to Rise Despite Digital Access

When people (re: students) complain about the outrageous cost of higher education,…

Children Prefer Print Books…Are We Still Surprised?

In unsurprising news, yet another study has concluded that children prefer, interact…

Social Reading Just Got a Lot Sweeter

In what has to be one of the best viral feel-good stories…

2.2M Students Used Free OpenStax Digital Textbooks Last Year

Digital textbooks were supposed to revolutionize and equalize education. By enabling access…

Pearson Sells Off Digital Textbook, School Courseware Division

Widely-known educational publisher Pearson has been giving hints and reports since 2017…

Print or Digital Isn’t the Issue in Kids’ Reading

Ever since the dawn of widely available ebooks and e-readers, there’s been…

Onyx has just developed a color e-reader

The Onyx Youngy Boox is a new 10.7 inch e-reader that displays…

Is Digital Reading Changing Our Brains?

Neuroscience researchers have conducted studies that point to a change in humans brains due to the lower interaction rate we are slowly developing with reading.

Kids These Days… Have They Stopped Reading?

For years, critics have bemoaned the decline of reading among both children and adults, but new data actually presents hard numbers on how this behavior has actually declined. A new report states that kids these days have all but stopped reading.

The best digital textbook solutions for students in 2018

Good e-Reader and the creative writers at Papercheap have developed a comprehensive list of the essential digital education apps that you need to know about.

Sweden to open source digital science journals and boycotts Elsevier

Elsevier is one of the largest publishers in the world that specialize…

University Libraries are Purging Millions of Books

Thousands of university libraries in the United States have begun to purge…