When he was attending the University of Tampa, Wellington resident Tom Shields noticed his friends fell into two categories: “Those who could afford to buy textbooks, and those who couldn’t.” The ...

The Direct Textbook app turns smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices into textbook barcode scanners; users can either scan the barcode of the textbook they need or manually enter its ISBN ...

Long Beach—The phrase “there’s an app for that” may be coming to textbooks. Today a major textbook company, Cengage Learning, announced a new e-textbook publishing platform that lets professors plug ...

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App State introduced a digital textbook rental system in 2021, which has quickly become popular among students. Nearly 99 percent of the student population has utilized the program, which has resulted ...

The Direct Textbook Android app and mobile site are free to use, and allow students to search for textbooks by title, author, ISBN, keywords and other filters. Search queries are processed through ...

Last night, Kno quietly released its first digital textbook app for the iPad. It includes its own store of “over 70,000 titles at 30% to 50% off list” price. And the app is a full textbook reader. At ...

Ever lugged around a backpack full of textbooks? If you have, you’d know that the task at hand can be tedious. Fortunately, with the iPad’s large 10-inch display, students can now reduce back strain ...

Neophytos Zambas, of Lopatcong Township, talks about NeoBook at a TCNJ business plan competition. Zambas and his partners won second place and $14,000. (Courtesy photo) In one semester, Neophytos ...

Ed tech developer Kno has formally released a version of its electronic textbook app on Apple's iOS platform. The app itself offers a range of enhanced mobile learning tools for working with textbooks ...

After scrapping plans to produce an unusual oversized dual-screen educational tablet device, Kno Inc., an educational startup focused on reinventing the textbook, has shifted its focus to creating ...