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A startup company offers students free alternatives to leading textbooks in key college courses -- taking aim at publishers, who aren't pleased.
Choosing an eBook Platform(s) that Works for Your K12 Library An ALA TechSource Workshop Presented by Buffy J. Hamilton August 2012 …
Amazon now offers physical textbook rentals as a cheaper option for college students, a move designed to keep Amazon as a dominant player in textbooks.
Coursera signs up a dozen more top universities for massively open online courses -- including the U. of Virginia, whose online strategy was a touchstone for the recent administrative rift.
Wiley v. Kirtsaeng
Redfield insists that a new textbook is necessary to change genetics teaching. What might happen if that book were OA?
Puerto Rico-based prof hopes to enforce textbook purchases, reduce piracy.
No matter where you live, if your children go to public schools, the textbooks they use were very possibly written under Texas influence. If they graduated with a reflexive suspicion of the concept of separation of church and state and an unexpected interest in the contributions of the National Rifle Association to American history, you know who to blame.
E-readers are ascendant, but they'll have to fight to gain ubiquity.
University of Minnesota compiles database of peer-reviewed, open-source textbooks | Inside Higher Ed
U. of Minnesota will catalog and offer peer reviews of open-source textbooks, aiming to help professors find those materials and give them the confidence to assign them.
If you are at all familiar with the open textbook world, you’ve likely heard of the startup called Boundless Learning. Leveraging information in the public domain, as well as dipping into the…
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.
Microsoft has invested $300 million in Barnes and Noble.
Logically, e-textbooks should be much cheaper than the print options available to students--but they're not. CT looks at the rationale behind their pricing, and the market factors at play.
OER textbook startup Boundless Learning is being sued for copyright infringement by Pearson, Cengage, and Macmillan. While the startup says that it's using openly licensed content to build its free