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• Inkling Partners With Follett to Sell iPad E-Textbooks in 900 College Bookstores

  689 readers PRESS RELEASE: New Partnership between Follett and Inkling Gives Students More Access to Interactive Digital Textbooks Follett Higher Education Group Becomes Largest Distributor of Inkling® Products OAK BROOK, Ill., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — This fall, students at colleges and universities with bookstores managed by Follett Higher Education Group will have another digital textbook option. Follett and Inkling

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  Follett and Inkling partner to give more digital textbook access

  1181 readersFrom the press release: This fall, students at colleges and universities with bookstores managed by Follett Higher Education Group will have another digital textbook option. Follett and Inkling Systems, Inc. today announced a partnership to offer Inkling’s enhanced, interactive digital textbooks through the more than 900 college stores operated by Follett as well as online via efollett.com®. Inkling’s interactive textbooks

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  Kno adds Kahn Academy resources to etextbooks

  1583 readers From Campus Technology: E-textbook developer Kno has released Textbooks 1.6.1 for iPad, bringing new multimedia resources to the textbook reader, including videos from Khan Academy, and adding new support for interactive 3D objects. Textbooks for iPad offers access to a catalog of 100,000 college- and university-level electronic textbooks from major textbook

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  Students Still Not Taking to E-Textbooks, New Data Show

  139 readers Despite the benefits of lower costs, lighter backpacks, added features and convenience, students just aren’t taking to e-textbooks, a new study shows. About 6% of students are using a “core digital textbook” as their main course material, according to a new study from the Book Industry Study Group, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of four-year

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  iPads for class? Not so fast

  1191 readersIn an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, iPads are examined in real-world class situations, and found wanting. The article, “iPads Could Hinder Teaching, Professors Say,” lays out some plusses about iPads in the classroom… but also some serious negatives.  Some suggest that the older Tablet PCs would be a better choice for classroom

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  Inkling Raises $17 Million in new Funding

  1440 readersInkling, a developer of interactive iPad textbooks, raised $17,000,000 in Series B funding today. The financing was led by Tenaya Capital and including Jafco Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and one of Inkling’s primary customers: Pearson Education. The company is based in San Fransisco, where it has 60 employees who have worked to produce the 30 titles

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  Trine University requires etextbooks for entire cirriculum

  2474 readersFrom The Chronicle of Higher Education. A lot more info in the article: Adoption of digital textbooks has moved at a snail’s pace on most college campuses. But at Trine University’s School of Professional Studies, that shift is being jump-started with a new collegewide mandate to adopt e-textbooks in all courses by January. The School

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  Now, With E-books, Your Prof Knows Exactly What You Read

  896 readersBy Dennis Abrams The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that CourseSmart, which sells digital versions of textbooks by major publishers, announced the introduction of a new tool to help professors and “others” measure students’ actual involvement with electronic course materials. For example, a student uses an introductory psychology e-textbook. That book can be integrated into the college’s

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  25% of textbook annual revenue to be from digital by 2015

  1132 readersFrom the press release: According to a new study by Xplana, textbook publishing in the Higher Education market is fast approaching the digital tipping point. By 2015, annual revenues from digital textbooks will represent 25 percent of the new textbook market and will reach approximately $1.5 billion in sales revenue. The study, “Digital Textbook Reaching

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  Etextbooks saved students little money, according to study

  1058 readers From The Chronicle of Higher Education.  More in the article: Despite the promise that digital textbooks can lead to huge cost savings for students, a new study at Daytona State College has found that many who tried e-textbooks saved only one dollar, compared with their counterparts who purchased traditional printed material. The study, conducted over four semesters,