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- When will textbook publishers get a clue?
- When will textbook publishers get a clue?I buy all my books onlineI mostly use half.com, which is part of eBay. But there's also:http://www.allbookstores.com/This is an aggregator, so it searches a bunch of sites.Here's how much you can save: My "Advanced Suse Linux" book retails for $146.95 at school...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
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- The Open College Textbook Act of 2009
- ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- Give Google a break!
- soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- eTextbooks 1.0 (Mobile)
- College students at nearly 6,000 campuses in the U.S. and Canada use eTextbooks from CourseSmart to help achieve their education goals. Students can access their eTextbooks and notes using any computer connected to the Internet and now their iPhone or iPod touch. The eTextbooks for the iPhone app is a...
- Software downloads 2009-09-08
- No Apple tablet? Too bad, but not why you think
- A while back I wrote that an Apple Tablet, no matter how innovative or cool, would be a non-starter in education without educational content to drive adoption. Now we're hearing that it won't be introduced at Apple's September event, despite a nearly constant churn of rumors about its existence. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- CK-12 Foundation dominates California e-textbook search
- Last month, I wrote a post on the CK-12 Foundation and their free textbook initiatives. As I suggested then, When some serious Silicon Valley heavyweights get together with Stanford academics and experienced K-12 educators to start producing high-quality, open content, chances are good that you’ll...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- The American Textbook Accessibility Act
- The American Textbook Accessibility ActChris, you're dreamingThe only way this is going to get a Federal charter is if someone with enough muscle gets to skim rents.None of the players have enough concentrated political pull to overcome the others who would gang up to block the monopoly play, so it's...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- The American Textbook Accessibility Act
- Yesterday, I posted some thoughts about Arizona State University's use of the Kindle in a pilot program and the heat the school was taking over the inability of blind students to use the devices. While the controversy seemed overblown to me, it sparked an interesting conversation with fellow blogger,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content
- The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without contentEVDO Internet connectivity??EV-DO really?With that only it's a pretty restricted market...there are not many countries were it will work...Better GSM+EDGE+HSPA&HSPA+ /WCDMA (2G -> 2.5G -> 3G -> 3.5G etc. support).CDMA has no longer term future on this planet... RE: The Apple...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content
- I know...it's the Apple rumor mill hard at work. The blogosphere is and has been abuzz with news of an upcoming uber-Touch from Apple and a new storm of news hit the Net today with the Financial Times announcement of some degree of rumor confirmation and a tablet, for...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Amazon CEO apology: 'Stupid,' 'thoughtless' to remove e-books from Kindle readers
- Amazon CEO apology: 'Stupid,' 'thoughtless' to remove e-books from Kindle readersAnyone else think e-readers are a good idea?Whether amazon or anyone else, the ability to edit content remotely or to remove content outright should be disturbing.You can argue an e-textbook could benefit from on-the-fly edits and revisions, but it is...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-24
- Chegg.com is the Netflix of textbooks
- Chegg.com is the Netflix of textbooksUse sticky notesInstead of writing in the textbooks, use sticky notes. Then take them all out when you return the book.Your Ideal world...Is unlikely to ever be ideal. The textbook industry is like so many others lately: greedy. That greed will prevent...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-09
- Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectations
- Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectationsRE: Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectationsI'm a university professor and have been experimenting with the DX since Friday. This device really has the potential to be a powerful and ubiquitous academic tool- it really is possible to read academic PDFs on...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- Anyone care to publish some textbooks on Scribd?
- The recent headlines about Simon and Schuster's publication of 5000 ebooks on Scribd grabbed my attention, since I had previously and unfairly put a look at the new service on the back burner. I'm glad I took the time to check it out since, assuming their business model is...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- E-reader devices: The fun is just starting
- The interest in e-readers, or e-books as they are called now, has reached a fever pitch. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fields nothing but Kindle questions at the company's  shareholder meeting. Prime View picks up E Ink, the company that supplies the screen to Amazon's Kindle, for $215 million. And companies...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Google reads my blogs again, uses my e-book model
- OK, so the great and powerful GOOG probably didn't give a lot of thought to my model of electronically distributing textbooks for use on commodity netbooks when they announced their upcoming e-book initiative. However, even if they can't crush Amazon in the consumer space, where the Oprah-loved Kindle makes...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- If a color Kindle is years away, where does that leave e-textbooks?
- If a color Kindle is years away, where does that leave e-textbooks?Color KindleI am an avid e-Book reader on laptop and iPod Touch. I want to like the large Kindle, but the up-front price is just over the top. (I acknowledge that the price includes services.) Among...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- Interead Cool-er: so close yet so far away
- Interead Cool-er: so close yet so far awayBut for use outside education?I'm interested in an e-reader because I like to read books on my train commute, or even just at home, and an e-reader would fit better in my purse than a netbook (it would be lighter too!).I know I...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- The problem for open source textbooks
- The problem for open source textbooksinteresting one, here is an attempt...1) Find an author/publisher willing to open source an existing textbook as the 'seed' for each subject. The seed is very important.2) Have a wikipedia style site. Decide whether and how contributors and contributions will be managed. 3) Have periodic...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
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