Flat World Knowledge and the University System of Ohio announced Wednesday that they will be launching a joint pilot program. The program will allow 1,000 Ohio students to receive digital textbooks for free. Flat World Knowledge are a new textbook publisher, and they specialize in free and open college textbooks. They’re working with the USO [...]
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University System of Ohio and Flat World Knowledge Team up to Start Pilot Program
March 11th, 2011 · 2 Comments · digital textbooks, ebookstore news
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University of Chicago (un)free ebook of the month
January 4th, 2011 · No Comments · free ebooks
On the first of each month (in this case it was the first Monday) the University of Chicago Press give away 1 title that they’re publishing. The free ebook for January is “Thousand of Broadways” by Robert Pinsky. Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky’s home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was [...]
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Building an eReader Collection, the Duke University Library experience
November 12th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
I attended this fabulous and informative session during the Charleston Conference on building an eReader collection by Aisha Harvey, Nancy Gibbs, and Natalie Sommerville of Duke University Libraries. I wanted to run my notes past the presenters first, to ensure accuracy, thus the tardiness of this post. First and foremost, according to the librarians, the [...]
Tags:building·collection·duke·ereader·experience·library·university
California State University to License Content from Major College Publishers
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · press release
I almost didn’t cover this, because this program was announced back in May. Right now all they’re doing is announcing that they’ve signed a bunch of textbook publishers to add their books to The Digital Marketplace. So what is The Digital Marketplace? Basically, the California State University System decided to adopt a single platform for [...]
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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 [...]
University of Cincinnati announce new iPad in the classroom research program
August 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From THE Journal: Through a partnership with a large urban school district in Utah, a research project at the University of Cincinnati will experiment with the use of Apple iPads in K-8 classrooms. The initiative will test the use of 35 Apple iPads to collect educational research in a federally funded partnership to improve teacher quality [...]
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South African university to launch new ebook pilot program
August 5th, 2010 · No Comments · digital textbooks
From the announcement: The University of Stellenbosch Business School and the popular South African online retailer kalahari.net launched an electronic book (eBooks) pilot project to determine the usability of e-reader software in the learning process. According to Prof John Powell, director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), the school’s objective for this project [...]
Read:OutLoud University Edition eBook Reader now available
July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Don Johnston just announced its new Read:OutLoud University Edition eBook Reader at the AHEAD Conference in Denver, Colorado. (Association on Higher Education and Disability) The Read:OutLoud University Edition eBook reader is accessible reading software to help individuals and postsecondary students with disabilities navigate the latest eBooks and textbooks and hear text [...]
Cambridge University Press signs with Bookshare
May 20th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, press release, publishing news
From the announcement: Cambridge University Press has entered into a license agreement with Bookshare, the California-based nonprofit organization that provides books in accessible formats for people with qualified print disabilities such as blindness or low vision, a physical disability or a severe learning disability that affects reading. Under the terms of the digital rights license [...]
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