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  How Apple Could Change the Way We iLearn

  604 readers Widespread digital textbook adoption has been predicted to be right around the corner for several years now, but in reality fewer than 3% of students were using them in late 2011. But now some think that might have changed. 350 thousand digital textbooks were downloaded to iBooks in the first few days after iBooks 2

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  Chunghwa Telecom Planning To Increase Customer Base To 1 Million By Year’s End

  834 readersThe Taiwan based network provider, Chunghwa Telecom, has recently announced plans to increase the number if users for its ebookstore, Hami. The ebookstore currently has about 500 thousand active users, and was opened in October 2009. According to compa...

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  NIACE Launches its Own eBookstore

  1201 readersThe National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), a non-profit LLC based in the UK, has expanded its bookstore to include digital editions of its textbooks, monographs, and reference guides. The eBookstore has around 50 titles at launch and the NIACE plans to add new titles as they’re published. Also, selected older titles will be converted

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  Report Shows that Digital Textbooks are Gaining Fans at Indiana University

  2057 readersIndiana University has been working on its own institutional level digital textbook system, and last month it released a report on its ongoing efforts to switch to digital textbooks. The signs are promising. A total of 22 courses covering 1,700 students have participated in the new digital textbook program, with classes spread across history, Italian, business,

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  Ohio College Students Get Free Digital Textbooks

  3329 readersThe University System of Ohio has teamed up with college textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge for a new program that gives free digital textbooks to students. As part of the program, a thousand Ohio students will receive digital textbooks for free f...

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  Shanda Interactive Plans IPO for its eBook Division

  1773 readersShanda Interactive, one of China’s largest media companies, has announced plans to take its eBook subsidiary, Cloudary Corp, public. Paperwork has bee filed, and is currently wending its way through the bowels of the SEC. Cloudary Corp was founde...

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  Fujitsu Is Getting Into Ebooks

  2148 readersFujitsu announced today that it plans to open an eBookstore as part if its paln to expand its PC and mobile phone business in Japan. The new store should open in May 2011. As a first step, Fujitsu’s new online eBookstore will provide digital con...

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  K12 eBookstore Is Focused on Teachers

  2231 readersThe K12 Teacher Store is not a new eBookstore, but it is the first I’ve found that only stocks educational materials. It stocks all manner of digital content including textbooks, apps, study guides, classroom activities, graphing calculator exerc...

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  Kno adds interactive digital features to iPad textbook app

  1199 readersHere’s some more intriguing e-textbook news from Kno, who recently released a survey showing that the majority of college students would give up sex to avoid carrying heavy textbooks, and who also released an HTML5-based app that allows students to read textbooks through Facebook and the web, Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch has an interesting piece

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  A Look at Students Using eTextbooks (Infographic)

  658 readers eCampus.com put together this fun infographic on college students and how they use digital textbooks. The infographic shows that most students are using the digital textbooks on their laptops, and 48% bought them because of the lower cost. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.