News tagged with textbooks
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.
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Kindle lets students rent digital textbooks
Amazon.com on Monday began letting students rent textbooks on Kindle electronic readers.
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Kno textbook reader to ship this year
Kno Inc., a California company making a digital textbook reader for students, announced on Tuesday it would begin shipping the tablet computer by the end of the year.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 10, 2010 |
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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
Jan 06, 2010 |
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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
Dec 07, 2009 |
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'Mechanics of Materials' Textbook Published Online, Available for Free
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are at least two good reasons to check out Madhukar Vable’s undergraduate textbook 'Mechanics of Materials.'
Sep 16, 2009 |
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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
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Amazon's Kindle DX: Not the answer
I am holding in my hands a device that some think could be the salvation of the beleaguered newspaper industry. It's the Amazon Kindle DX, a large-screen version of Amazon's popular e-reader that's specifically ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 16, 2009 |
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California schoolbooks going digital
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced plans to phase out school textbooks in favor of digital learning aids as the state looks to plug its massive budget hole.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 09, 2009 |
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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.
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May 28, 2009 |
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Texas board hears testimony on science standards
(AP) -- Tensions over the teaching of evolution are simmering as the State Board of Education begins the final stretch in the process of adopting new classroom science curriculum standards.
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Analyst: Apple sold more than 350,000 e-textbooks in 3 days
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 a ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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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
Sep 04, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jul 22, 2011 |
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SKorean students ditch paper for digital books
Outside the classroom a hot summer day beckons, but fourth-grade teacher Yeon Eun-jung's students are glued to their tablet PCs as they watch an animated boy and a girl squabble about whether water becomes ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 20, 2011 |
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