So I got another spam email today in my old college email account and it brings up something of a quandary. The email was from Study Blue, an online notes repository. This is a site where you can upload and organize the notes you type up for a class (or meeting). It’s geared strictly towards [...]
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That funky font study actually does mean what it says
January 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments · surveys & polls
So an interesting study showed up on the internet in the past few days (Daily Mail). Three grad students at Princeton University and Indiana University did an experiment to test the effect a font had on reading comprehension. What they did was have a control group read a list of facts in a normal black [...]
BISG Ebook ISBN study released
January 17th, 2011 · No Comments · surveys & polls
The Book Industry Study Group held a meeting last week where they looked into whether publishers, retailers, and content creators are using ISBNs the way they’re supposed to. FYI: An ISBN is basically a serial number for an ebook or paper book. The short answer is that a lot of companies are going their own [...]
7% of US own an e-reader, study says
January 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · surveys & polls
PWC have released the results of a study today that summarizes the current state of the ebook and e-reader market. PWC polled over 1000 online users in the US, UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. I’m still reading it myself, but I’m intrigued by some of the results.
Nielsen’s Kindle reading speeds study was flawed
July 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
The results of a brief study into reading speeds were posted yesterday. The study compared the speed of reading with a: paper book PC screen Kindle iPad You can find the report on the study here. I think this study was flawed. Something was measured, yes, but it was not the reading speed of the [...]
Michigan State conducting an ebook viability study
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The State News is reporting that Michigan State University is currently looking into the possibility of using digital textbooks on campus. From the article: The campuswide student survey, which is part of MSU’s Environmental Stewardship Initiative and is expected to be completed in September, will gather information about how prepared students are for a potential [...]
Shmoop study guides
May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
A press release popped into my inbox this morning. Shmoop (a maker of study guides) proudly announced that 400 of their titles were now available in the Sony Ebookstore. So what? I did a little digging, and you can find all the Shmoop study guides at Amazon and B&N. (This is why I dislike most [...]
Findings from Digital Textbook Study Released
March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · digital textbooks
From the press release: GetYa Learn On, LLC – an educational software company that created the innovative application called “Statistics I” – today released empirical findings from a pilot study conducted during the Fall semester of 2009 at Abilene Christian University (ACU). Students in an introductory Statistics class were given the new iPhone application which [...]
InfoTrends Announces Study on Reading & Digital Content in Europe
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · surveys & polls
From the press release: InfoTrends has polled over 1,300 European consumers from five countries to get a better understanding of the dynamics at work, and has complemented those insights with additional data on reading and publishing trends to create a report entitled Consumer Media Preferences – The Future of Publishing Applications. … The report discusses [...]
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“Net piracy puts 1.2m EU jobs in peril, study shows” & Other Nonsense
March 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
The Guardian is reporting: A quarter of a million British jobs in the music, film, TV, software and other creative industries could be lost over the next five years if online piracy continues at its current rate, according to a study backed by European unions and the TUC. Across the EU, as many as 1.2 [...]
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