Texas Gov. Rick Perry told The Washington Examiner on Friday that Amazon won’t have to collect sales tax for the state of Texas; he will ask the state legislature to clarify the legal issue. This is only the latest part of an ongoing saga. Various states have been trying to get Amazon to collect sales [...]
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Texas blinked – Amazon won’t be collecting sales tax after all
February 14th, 2011 · 17 Comments · ebookstore news, opinion
Texas A&M to use Vitalsource for digital textbooks
February 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · digital textbooks, press release
Texas A&M University announced Tuesday that they’ve signed a contract for Vitalsource to provide digital textbooks to undergraduate students. From the press release:
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Texas A&M, XanEdu to run pilot program with NookColor
November 24th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: XanEdu, the leading faculty-preferred provider of custom course materials and textbooks, has partnered with Barnes & Noble and Texas A&M to conduct research on the efficacy of accessing and studying custom course materials within NookStudy. Students at Texas A&M will access their XanEdu course materials in NookStudy and provide valuable feedback [...]
EA Texas Hold’em Poker app now live in the Kindle Store
November 11th, 2010 · No Comments · kindle app
You might recall that I found this app 3 days ago. I thought it would go live sooner than this. Here’s what the Kindle blog had to say: EA Texas Hold’em is easy to play, whether you’re a poker pro or brand-new to Texas Hold’em. Choose between three difficulty levels and challenge six unique in-game [...]
New Kindle app coming tomorrow – Texas Hold’em
November 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · kindle app
Sometime soon EA will have a new app in the Kindle store. It’s a poker app called Texas Hold’em. I don’t hav any solid data yet becuase the app isn’t actually available yet. I found a dead link to it on the Panda Poet page. But it’s showing a price of $3.99, so I think [...]
Texas university to launch iPad pilot program
August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · digital textbooks, ipad pilot
The student newspaper for Abilene Christian University, the optimist, are reporting: Students in Dr. Ian Shepherd’s microeconomics class were greeted with more than just a syllabus on their first day of class Tuesday. The students were told they will be given iPads and told they will be among the first in the nation to use [...]
Texas is looking to hang the Agency 5 out to dry
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the Wall Street Journal: The Texas attorney general is making inquiries about the electronic book market, according to people familiar with the matter, a business where pricing recently has been shaken up by Apple Inc. and the way e-books are sold for the iPad. Two major publishers said they have been approached by the [...]
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