4 posts and columns on eTextbooks

A Day Before Apple’s Education Event, Chegg Points Out That Digital Textbooks Are Already Here

in Media on January 18 at 4:30 am PT

A new e-textbook reader from one of many players that’s already chasing the nascent market.
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Amazon Tries Taking the Kindle to School, Again, With Textbook Rentals

in Media on July 18, 2011 at 6:33 am PT

Amazon, which dominates the e-book market, has stayed out of the electronic textbook market. Until now: The company has opened up a textbook store for its Kindle platform, where it is renting “tens of thousands” of titles for the upcoming school year.
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News Byte

Barnes & Noble Preps a Study Buddy

in News on July 12, 2010 at 10:52 am PT

With an eye on expanding its e-book influence beyond its Nook reader, Barnes & Noble today announced the August availability of NOOKstudy, a free software application for PCs and Macs that allows college students to download, annotate and manage digital texts and related material. B&N, which through a subsidiary operates 637 college bookstores in the U.S., says the program “provides students access to all of their materials–eTextbooks, lecture notes, syllabi, slides, images, trade books and other course-related documents–all in one place.”