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Online bookstore Akademos has launched its new Adoption Tool, a virtual site where faculty can go to choose their adopted texts for class.
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The increasing price of textbooks can be an additional financial burden to students already struggling with paying tuition. Here is just one way to loosen the noose of student loans.
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New research results by Pew Research Centre show that reading is on the rise and is being prompted by the availabilty of e-books.The study shows that 21% of Americans have read an e-book.
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NEW YORK – Death doesn't always stop great writers from publishing their new material. Not even Kurt Vonnegut. So it goes.
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A prize-winning Spanish writer, Lucía Etxebarría, has told Spanish media that she is giving up her writing career as she feels that illegal downloads of her books have caused a major problem not just to her but to writers across the world.
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Crayola is taking the plunge into the e-book market and will start selling "digital" coloring books and apps for tablet devices.
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The idea that the paper book is a dying entity is absurd. There have always been predictions about the pending demise of well loved technologies or entertainments in lieu of other more advanced ones.
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Amazon announced Wednesday that Kindle customers can now borrow more than 11,000 ebooks from libraries across the United States. Local libraries are now announcing implementing the system and informing their visitors.
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Tech giant Google has released their first eReader and will match the prices of both the Amazon Kindle and Nook Simple Touch Reader at a major retailer.
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J.K. Rowling has a new project, Pottermore. Partnering with Sony the author of the Harry Potter books is giving fans a free website for all things Potter, Rowlings announced this morning at Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
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Five US publishers are being threatened with legal action over the way they set prices for electronic books according to reports.
Teenagers have designed new covers for Lord of the Flies in an attempt to keep them interested in real books as ebook sales increase.
It is time to rejoice, Potterphiles: Harry Potter books are finally available as eBooks. All seven of J.K. Rowling popular science fiction novels are now available as digital books, and as audio books, on the Pottermore website. While they aren’t available directly through Amazon’s Kindle or Sony’s Reader Store, the...
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble are very much the e-book underdogs with Amazon and Apple’s iBooks store for the iPad dominating the market. But today Barnes & Noble announced plans to create a venture for ebooks with Microsoft taking a $300 million investment for a...
The Justice Department has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and five major publishers over allegations of pricing fixing of E-books. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, alleges that Apple and publishers Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Hachette and Pearson agreed to fix the price of e-books ahead of the debut of Apple's iPad in 2010 as ebooks gained popularity with the rise of Amazon's Kindle in 2007.
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