Major publishers are not sitting idly by, while digital textbook pirates use Google Ads to boost their website traffic and profit from subscription services or individual sales, often at a fraction of the market price. The publishing industry, including physical and digital textbooks, is a massive business in the United States, generating over 8.3 billion annually. The … [Read more...] about Should Google do more to prevent textbook piracy?
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Booktopia Partners with VitalSource to Launch Digital Textbook Platform
Booktopia (Australia’s largest online bookstore) has partnered with VitalSource (the world’s premier education technology provider) to launch a digital textbook service – Bookshelf. The new best-in-class eReader platform will enable Booktopia customers to access digital textbooks. VitalSource’s Bookshelf comes with a full suite of built-in study tools, including flashcards, … [Read more...] about Booktopia Partners with VitalSource to Launch Digital Textbook Platform
Where Are All the Digital Textbooks? Students Don’t Want ‘Em
With back to school season starting to show its summer-stealing flare, students around the world are prepping for a new semester in the start of a new school year. At this time, students will work to secure the best prices on their higher ed and private school textbooks, but many can expect to pay nearly $1000US for a semester's worth of texts. But only a handful of years … [Read more...] about Where Are All the Digital Textbooks? Students Don’t Want ‘Em
Digital Textbooks Get Added Accessibility Support through Vital Source
Ingram Content Group's solutions division Vital Source Technologies, Inc., presented a new interface at the annual convention of the National Federation of the Blind, held last week in Orlando, Florida, that unveiled the new accessibility features of its Vital Source Bookshelf platform. These features will even the playing field for students with greater or different needs from … [Read more...] about Digital Textbooks Get Added Accessibility Support through Vital Source
Inkling Signs On As McGraw-Hill Education’s Digital Publishing Provider
McGraw-Hill Education has become synonymous with innovation in digital textbooks and technology-based learning platforms, specifically for its award-winning and game-changing CourseSmart platform. So when the arguable leader in the digital academic sphere looks for a new provider to build its content delivery, it says something profound that they chose Inkling Habitat. “Our … [Read more...] about Inkling Signs On As McGraw-Hill Education’s Digital Publishing Provider
StudySync, McGraw Hill Team Up on Digital ELA Materials
Academic publishers are finding that there's strength in numbers when it comes to launching digital content for classroom settings. At a SXSWEdu event today, McGraw-Hill Education and StudySync announced a partnership aimed at bringing language arts materials that are aligned with the Common Core Standards to digital environments for teaching. “With information available at … [Read more...] about StudySync, McGraw Hill Team Up on Digital ELA Materials
Chegg Stock Sale Is Good News for Digital Textbooks
Digital textbook rental company Chegg announced some time ago that they were taking the company public and inviting investors to come on board. While that's a fairly common business strategy, joined recently by companies like social media giant Twitter, the current status of the stock sale is a positive sign for where the public and publishing industries are taking digital … [Read more...] about Chegg Stock Sale Is Good News for Digital Textbooks
Snapplify, Macmillan Launch eReader App for Educational Content
As device penetration takes place in more and more international markets, especially where education is concerned, publishers and content developers are discovering new issues that must be addressed in order to avoid the falsehood of the "one size fits all" approach to technology. South African app developer Snapplify was recently tapped to create an ebook reading app … [Read more...] about Snapplify, Macmillan Launch eReader App for Educational Content
Ingram Forms New Publisher Partnerships to Expand Digital Textbook Distribution
Ingram is innovating more and more in the digital textbook arena. While there are many conflicting studies on whether students actually like digital textbooks or not, the ball is rolling and I expect that they will have no choice in years to come. Ingram has added sixty new publishers and 35,000 new digital textbooks and online course tools to its VitalSource Bookshelf … [Read more...] about Ingram Forms New Publisher Partnerships to Expand Digital Textbook Distribution
Digital Textbooks: What’s Stopping Us?
Across the globe, paper textbooks are slowly being relegated to “thing of the past” status to make way for enhanced digital textbooks. South Korea has already put into place an initiative to digitize all textbooks in public schools and higher education. India has rolled out several models of minimalist cost-effective tablets aimed at public school students, even in outlying … [Read more...] about Digital Textbooks: What’s Stopping Us?
Wisconsin Schools to Adopt iPads with Money from Microsoft Settlement
Teachers at the Madison School District will soon be seen doling out brand new iPad tablet devices to the students. This isn't the first time that we are coming across a school adopting the apple tablet, though this time Microsoft is paying the bill. Wisconsin, along with 18 other states, had filed a lawsuit against Microsoft almost a decade ago accusing the tech giant of … [Read more...] about Wisconsin Schools to Adopt iPads with Money from Microsoft Settlement
$49 Dynamic Digital Textbooks a Reality
If you are a college student and the high cost of college books has been bothering you, there seems a solution is in sight if the initiative taken by the California State University comes to fruition. This fall, students can look forward to 'web-based textbooks' that will not only be a lot cheaper than their paper counterparts, but can also turn out to be more advantageous with … [Read more...] about $49 Dynamic Digital Textbooks a Reality