From the press release: Flat World Knowledge, the largest publisher of free and open college textbooks for students worldwide, today announced it has secured $15 million in Series B funding led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, a leading international media company, and Bessemer Venture Partners, a top [...]
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Flat World Knowledge raised $15m funding for their open textbook platform
January 20th, 2011 · No Comments · press release
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eBooks in a Textbook World
September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
Education is a splendid thing — except for the textbooks that students have to buy. When I was in school, high school and college, many, many years ago, it was rare that for there to be a single book for a course. Not only were they heavy to carry, but they were expensive — and [...]
Textbook Publishing vs. Lifelong Learning Publishing
September 7th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
The textbook publishing industry certainly has its share of challenges. It’s hard telling whether upstarts like Flatworld Knowledge will ever fully disrupt this sector but as the textbook-buying parent of two college students I admit I’m pulling for underdogs like Flatworld. Everyone knows textbooks are ridiculously expensive but I’m not here to lobby for a [...]
NookStudy is a serious threat to the Kindle textbook market
August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · software news
Of course, the Kindle doesn’t work well with textbooks so that’s not saying much. I’ve spent the last couple hours with NookStudy and while it has a number of usability issues, it is still the best desktop reading app on the market. It also fills a need. It’s the first decent desktop reading app that [...]
Borders are making a push into textbook market
July 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release
They just put out a press release today: Borders(R) today announced the launch of its new “Borders Textbook Marketplace” at borders.com/textbooks. The Marketplace features more than 1.4 million titles including a large selection of used textbooks at savings of up to 90 percent. In addition to saving on their purchases, students can also earn extra [...]
Santillana launches digital textbook platform
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects, software news, Uncategorized
El Pais is reporting that the Spanish language textbook publisher Santillana* has just started a pilot program to provide web based digital textbooks to students in Spain. The program currently covers 60k high school students in Catalonia. What’s rather neat about the Santillana platform is that the content isn’t fixed. teachers have the ability to [...]
California’s Digital Textbook Initiative, Phase 2
May 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
The California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) has just released the draft report for Phase 2 California’s digital textbook initiative. This second phase of the initiative covered reviews of digital textbooks on history, economics, social studies, and other social sciences. Phase 1 was announced last spring, and its report was released in August. It covered the [...]
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 [...]
Direct Textbook Launches New eBook Search Tool
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the press release (minus the hype): Direct Texbook’s ebook search tool searches more than 200 online bookstores, including eBooks.com, eCampus.com, Cengagebrain.com, Coursesmart.com and Textbooks.com. Users can search by ISBN, author, title or relevant keywords and within seconds have immediate access to book descriptions, reviews and edition details. In one click, users can save the [...]
More Results From the Kindle Textbook Pilot Programs
March 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
The story I found this morning about the Kindle DX pilot program at UVA reminded me that it wasn’t the only pilot last fall. I’ve found reports on several of the pilots, and I’ll write them up as I get the chance. Princeton University released the final report on their e-reader pilot last month. You [...]
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