News tagged with electronic textbooks

Panasonic to release 65-inch Interactive Plasma Display

Panasonic Corporation announced today it will start shipment of its 65-inch "Interactive Plasma Display" (TH-65PB1), incorporated with electronic pen functions, in Japan, the U.S., and Europe at the end of ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (Update)

Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

Technology / Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Apple to hold media event on education next week

(AP) -- Apple is scheduling a media event in New York next week, but the company isn't saying much about the topic it plans to discuss.

Technology / Business

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks

(AP) -- For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 14

Science materials in Texas get prelim. approval

(AP) -- An expected fight over teaching evolution in Texas classrooms fizzled Thursday when the state's Board of Education gave preliminary approval to supplemental science materials for the coming school ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Kindle lets students rent digital textbooks

Amazon.com on Monday began letting students rent textbooks on Kindle electronic readers.

Technology / Other

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms

Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "digital natives" born in the wired age.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Amazon's Kindle DX goes international

Amazon.com on Wednesday made its premier Kindle DX model electronic reader available in more than 100 countries.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Amazon's Kindle to get audible menus, bigger font

(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. will add two features to the Kindle e-book reader to make the gadget more accessible to blind and vision-impaired users.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

College e-textbooks go to class in iPhones

US and Canadian college students can pack textbooks into their pockets instead of spine-bending backpacks courtesy of an iPhone application released by CourseSmart.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Color Kindle 'multiple' years away: Amazon CEO

Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said Thursday that the online retail giant may never reveal sales figures for the Kindle and a color version of the electronic reader is "multiple" years away.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amazon seeks more paths for sales with new Kindle

(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. hopes a bigger version of its Kindle electronic reading device can be a hit, even if it's more expensive, and the company is aiming it in part at college students who are eager to ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Future of school textbooks written in cyberspace

Northwest Missouri State University students started spring semester classes Monday, but many aren't lugging thick textbooks around campus.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0