textbooks
73 posts are related to your search. Page 1 of 8
Inkling will sell iPad textbooks in over 900 college bookstores
iPad textbook publisher Inkling is partnering with college bookstore provider Follett. Starting this fall, Follett will sell “hundreds of Inkling titles” in its over 900 college bookstores — including Stanford and UC Berkeley — and on its website.Titles include popular und...
New Nook Company To Take Apple's iPad Textbooks Head-On
Battle for e-textbooks heats up with new Nook company Barnes & Noble’s announcement that it was spinning off its Nook business and that Microsoft would be a significant stakeholder in the new company raised a lot of eyebrows. The partnership seemed unnecessary in order to meet the goals...
Steve Jobs and his relentless drive to cut away what's not absolutely necessary, and simplify what remains
Steve Jobs had Apple halt iPhone production to make the display more prominent, halted iPad production to make the edges more scoop-able, and continuously, relentlessly, stopped Apple in mid-stride to cut what wasn’t necessary and simplify what absolutely was. This singular insight is brou...
Apple Configurator - Perfect For Schools And Small Business But Too Limited For Many Big Companies
Along with announcing the new iPad and Apple TV (and related iOS and app updates), Apple released a new tool for managing iOS devices in business and education. The new Apple Configurator app is a free download in the Mac App Store for Macs running Lion. Although it takes the sting out of managi...
Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, California to get 1,800 Apple iPads (with video)
It's midmorning and the faces of the students in Tim Wesmiller's religious studies class...
Apple's New Annual Upgrade Cycle May Wreak Havoc On Schools
Apple’s announcement of Mountain Lion breaks with the past in a few ways including by announcing with out a major Apple event. One of the other changes is the news the Apple is moving OS X to a yearly release cycle like iOS. That may be a great way to introduce new features for consumers, ...
Inkling launches Inkling Habitat for textbook publishing
iBooks Author was announced last month to a lot of hoopla, but left many ebook publishers wanting a textbook authoring tool that would streamline the entire book publishing process and have more features. Today, Inkling announced their new online ebook publishing tool -- Inkling Habitat -- that...
Amazon's last chance to catch up to Apple
If you think Apple is a pretty big deal right now, you've seen nothing yet...
USA Today's Baig: Apple scores with iPad textbooks and iBooks Author for Mac
Two weeks ago, Apple declared its intention to be at the head of the class...
Wisconsin settlement funds from Microsoft being used to buy iPads for education
Wisconsin plans to use settlement funds from Microsoft to buy 1,400 iPads for educational use. The almost $80 million in settlement funds came a result of claims that Microsoft was overcharging consumers for software. The iPads are being paid for with $3.4 million from the funds. With AppleR...
