Barnes and Noble is a longstanding bookstore chain, with over 600 retail locations. It's the most extensive and only national ...

College professors take their lesson plans into the digital realm. PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 27, 2009— -- In colleges across the country online textbooks are inching their way to the top of the class, ...

Forums: Join an online discussion about whether there will ever be a market for electronic textbooks, and why students remain uninterested in them so far. While buying books for her marketing class ...

Electronic books, or e-books, have changed the way many of us read for pleasure. Now digital text books - educational volumes which are read online - are transforming the way many students learn. The ...

Brandi Giles is taking a class called Earth and Space Sciences at Skyline High School in Mesa this year. But unlike students who took the class previously, she is not lugging a heavy textbook back and ...

When Regina Kizer took online nursing classes in two graduate nursing degree programs, she bought textbooks in all different formats. “I've tried eBooks; I've tried Kindle. I've tried purchasing them ...

According to a recent study, textbook prices have risen over 1,041 percent since 1977. Why? Because capitalism. Roughly 80 percent of all college textbooks printed are published by an oligopoly of ...

Another attack on overpriced college textbooks has come, this time from 38 community colleges developing curricula that use open education resources. (Hat tip to Mark Perry of Carpe Diem Blog.) Think ...

Book publishers that bundle online access codes with college textbooks are thwarting attempts to bring down the price of the books, which can cost as much as $1,200 per academic year, a student ...

There’s something magical about sharing a good book with a friend: From comparing notes on world-building to kvetching about lackluster endings or swooning over love interests, you can keep a story ...