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.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 28, 2009
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Historian Donald Yacovone, an associate at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, was researching a book on the legacy of the antislavery movement when he came across some old history school textbooks ...
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2020
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A Texas panel has approved 89 history and social studies textbooks for use in classrooms across America's second-largest state, after one top publisher withdrew a book.
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2014
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Mathematics and science Braille textbooks are expensive and require an enormous effort to produce—until now. A team of researchers has developed a method for easily creating textbooks in Braille, with an initial focus on ...
Education
Jan 16, 2020
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Students don't seem to want to buy e-textbooks. So some schools are simply forcing them.
Other
Aug 16, 2012
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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 June, followed ...
Consumer & Gadgets
May 15, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The simple school textbook is used by states to mould loyal citizens, according to a new study.
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2009
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Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax, which has already provided free textbooks to hundreds of thousands of college students, today announced a $9 million effort to develop free, digital textbooks capable of delivering ...
Software
Aug 21, 2014
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(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.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 7, 2009
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New York students would ditch textbooks and be issued tablets under a proposal by a leading candidate for mayor.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 16, 2013
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