Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it ...

Plenty of folks see the move to digital textbooks as "inevitable." After all, more and more people are buying e-books and e-readers. Yet college students in particular continue to turn up their noses ...

Teachers in Coon Rapids, Minnesota had all but disposed of their school district’s statistics textbook, constantly replacing its outdated information with their own notes and homework problems. When ...

App State introduced a digital textbook rental system in 2021, which has quickly become popular among students. Nearly 99 percent of the student population has utilized the program, which has resulted ...

A digital sketch, by the author, of participants discussing their use of e-textbooks. Ekaterina Rzyankina, Author provided (no reuse) In the past four years it’s become increasingly common for part or ...

Recent reports show major textbook publisher Pearson’s CEO thinks NFTs could help them track and get a cut of second-hand digital textbook sales. Reading time 7 minutes The heart of the argument for ...

Is there a college student — or parent — who has not winced at the price of a textbook? Today's digital textbooks are no different. Most now require an access code for a fee or are tied to automatic ...

AMES, Iowa – College professors and instructors can learn a lot from the chapters of a digital textbook that they assign students to read. Reynol Junco, an associate professor in Iowa State University ...

Company announces today iBooks 2, a "new textbook experience" for the iPad and Apple's attempt to bury traditional schoolbooks. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

Japanese parliament on Wednesday enacted a revised law to introduce digital textbooks as formal teaching materials at schools ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Diet enacted legislation on June 10 to formally introduce digital textbooks, with the education ministry ...