Today Amazon announced the launch of their new Kindle Textbook Rental service, where students can rent textbooks to read on Kindle apps and Kindle devices. The Kindle Textbook Rental service allows students to choose exactly how long they want to rent a textbook, anywhere from 30 days to 1 year. And students can choose to […]
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CourseSmart 5% off eTextbooks; Kobo Spin and Win Contest
A couple of quick savings updates, here’s a coupon code for 5% off eTextbooks at CourseSmart.com: JFXYSAA. The code is valid until June 1st, 2011. Secondly, Kobo is running a spin and win contest until the end of the day on March 20th. You can win a 10% – 50% off coupon, a $25 eGift […]
Kno Student Tablet Being Shelved for Software?
As we have all come to realize, the “tablet” is a hot commodity that many different companies are trying to get their hands in. Microsoft, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Google are just a few of the major companies competing against each other in the mobile computing device market. However, there is one company that, despite […]
Kobo Adds 175k Educational and Technical PDFs to eBookstore
Kobo Books has added 175,000 PDFs to their ebook library from more than 2,000 publishers, including Prentice-Hall, McGraw-Hill, Blackwell, Palgrave, The World Bank, Springer, Financial Times Press, Routledge, and others. The PDFs include medical texts, academic and scientific texts, dictionaries, economics and business manuals, technical manuals, and other education oriented materials.
NOOKstudy Review – A Look at B&N’s Textbook Reading Software
Back on August 3rd, just in time for back to school, Barnes and Noble released their new free textbook software called NOOKstudy. NOOKstudy is designed for college students so that they can manage all their digital content on a PC or Mac computer in one place—eTextbooks, notes, syllabi, books, presentations, classwork, etc. Some features of […]
Barnes and Noble Partners with Blackboard
Barnes and Noble’s pursuit of the higher education market continues to move forward as they’ve partnered with Blackboard to make it easier for millions college students to access interactive e-textbooks as part of their online courses. The partnership between the two companies will give students more options for digital learning material through the Blackboard Learn […]
eTextbooks: 10 Websites for Digital Textbooks, Academic Books
Digital textbooks are becoming more popular with students and universities as paper textbooks cost more and can be cumbersome to carry around everywhere. Below is a list of free textbook websites and digital textbook retailers. Also, make sure to check this earlier post about getting free ebooks from libraries, since there are a lot of […]