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Are digital textbooks worth it?

January 28, 2015 by By Mary Axelson
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It has been nearly three years since the FCC and Education Secretary Arne Duncan rolled out the Digital Textbook Playbook and challenged schools to go digital within five…
Categories Creating a Digital Learning Environment, Curriculum, eClassroom News, Featured on eSchool News, Teaching & Learning, Top News

In price war, new Kindle sells for $139

July 29, 2010 by staff and wire services reports
Amazon.com will introduce two new versions of its Kindle eReader on July 29, and one will sell for $139, reports the New York Times—the lowest price yet for…
Categories IT Management, Teaching & Learning

Feds: Make eReaders accessible to all students

November 5, 2013June 30, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor
The federal government will help schools and colleges using eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle to comply with laws giving students with disabilities equal access to emerging education…
Categories District Management, eClassroom News, IT Management, Registration Required, Teaching & Learning, Top News

Amazon cuts Kindle price to $189 after Nook move

June 22, 2010 by staff and wire services reports
A price war is heating up in the electronic reader market, as Amazon cut the price of its Kindle eReader below $200 on June 21, just after Barnes…
Categories Business News, District Management, IT Management, Teaching & Learning

eBook restrictions vex users

November 5, 2013May 11, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
As more and more eReading devices flood the market, users are beginning to feel the restrictions imposed by copyright and digital rights management (DRM)—restrictions that some fear could…
Categories District Management, eClassroom News, IT Management, New Options in One-to-One Computing, Registration Required, Teaching & Learning, Top News

Publishers win a bout in eBook Price Fight

February 10, 2010 by staff and wire services reports
With the impending arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book prices, publishers have managed to take some control--at least temporarily--of…
Categories IT Management, Teaching & Learning

Kindles, iPads could be textbooks in new Georgia state bill

February 3, 2010 by staff and wire services reports
Could Kindles, iPads, and other reading devices soon be as common in Georgia schools as textbooks? Maybe, if a bill passed by the state Senate is approved in…
Categories District Management, IT Management, Teaching & Learning

Future of eReading might not be iPad, but Blio

November 5, 2013January 31, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
Despite all the buzz about Apple’s iPad tablet and how it could be useful for reading electronic textbooks, a new software program on the way might hold even…
Categories Creating the 21st-century classroom, IT Management, Registration Required, Teaching & Learning, Top News

Blindness groups, ASU settle lawsuit over Kindle

November 5, 2013January 12, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
Two organizations representing the blind have settled a discrimination lawsuit against Arizona State University over its use of Amazon's Kindle e-reader device.
Categories District Management, IT Management, Top News

e-Reader boom kindles variety of new options

November 5, 2013January 8, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
When most people think of electronic book readers, Amazon's thin, white Kindle probably springs to mind. But that could be about to change: A cascade of new eBook…
Categories IT Management, New Options in One-to-One Computing, Teaching & Learning, Top News

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