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

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 ...

Textbooks, those long-entrenched staples of classrooms, could soon be pushed from their place of prominence by a high-tech alternative: online lessons that can be downloaded, customized and updated — ...

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 ...

Colleges aren’t the only enterprises interested in the possibilities of free, online courses. Publishers have begun to investigate whether so-called MOOC’s, or massive open online courses, can help ...

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 ...

When Maddy Meaux, a sophomore at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, signed up for an introductory accounting course, she noticed something extraordinary. The online textbook for the course was ...

Every college graduate knows about the games schools and textbook publishers play when it comes to revenue. The average textbook company comes out with a new version of each of their books every few ...

While Chris Dawson, resident blogging counterpart royally annoyed the hell out of an association powering over 3,000 campus bookstores in the United States, I retreated to the Zackcave where I mulled ...