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Inkling Debuts Interactive iPad Textbook Experience With Photography App
We recently wrote about a startup that develops an innovative digital textbook platform, Inkling, which raised funding from Sequoia, Aydin Senkut, and other investors and scored a number of deals with...
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1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015
Sales of digital textbooks still only account for a small fraction of the U.S. college market. But according to the latest report by the social learning platform Xplana, we have reached the tipping...
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The Kno Textbook App And Store Hits The iPad
Last night, Kno quietly released its first digital textbook app for the iPad. It includes its own store of “over 700,000 titles at 30% to 50% off list” price. And the app is a full textbook reader....
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Amazon Lets Students Rent Digital Textbooks
nk497 writes “Amazon has unveiled a new digital textbook rental service, allowing students to choose how long they’d like access to an eBook-version of a textbook via their Kindle or app — with the...
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California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks
bcrowell writes “Although former Governor Schwarzenegger’s free digital textbook initiative for K-12 education was a failure, state senator Darrell Steinberg has a new idea for the state-subsidized...
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Why Apple’s Restrictive iBooks Author Rules May Not Be Legally Enforceable
When Apple unveiled plans last week to ramp up its efforts in the education space, the company’s announcement was met with decidedly mixed reactions. While many welcomed Apple’s foray into digital...
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How the iPad Is Changing Education
The iPad may only be two years old, but it’s already begun to change many things. Reading is one of them. Work is another. It is selling like crazy, but it will be some time before most of the people...
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