Last week Apple announced two new eReader platforms – iBooks and iAuthor – that the electronics giant hopes will modernize learning and “reinvent textbooks.” Northeastern University news office asked Matthew ...
Social Sciences
Jan 31, 2012
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(AP) -- Library users searching for e-books will soon get to look through a much bigger catalog and help decide what their local branch might carry.
Internet
Jan 25, 2012
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Apple's foray into the e-textbook business started off with a bang, according to a Monday report: The company sold more than 350,000 textbooks through its new version of iBooks in its first three days of availability, an ...
Business
Jan 24, 2012
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Textbooks are often a luxury for college senior Vatell Martin. The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors' lectures. "It's not that I didn't want to buy," ...
Other
Jan 18, 2012
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced today that its research team headed by Professor Howon Lee from the IT Convergence Research Institute has developed a technology that will make reading ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 10, 2012
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(AP) -- Barnes & Noble is considering options for its quickly growing but expensive Nook e-book reading business, its latest attempt to regain profitability as the publishing industry adapts to the rising popularity of digital ...
Business
Jan 5, 2012
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Amazon said Monday that a software update to improve the performance of Kindle Fire tablets will be released within two weeks.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 12, 2011
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Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to eventually close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 9, 2011
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(AP) -- The Justice Department is looking into possible anticompetitive practices involving e-book sales.
Business
Dec 8, 2011
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The European Union's antitrust watchdog is probing whether Apple helped five major publishing houses illegally raise prices for e-books when it launched its iPad tablet and iBookstore in 2010.
Business
Dec 6, 2011
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