Lighten your load and save your wallet by buying or renting digital textbooks this school year. Eric has been writing about tech for 30+ years. He manages PCMag’s Readers’ Choice program and leads a ...

Welcome to today’s online chat about the benefits and drawbacks of electronic textbooks. In what ways are digital textbooks more effective learning tools than their print counterparts? Conversely, ...

Northwest Missouri State University nearly became the first public university to deliver all of its textbooks electronically. Last year the institution’s tech-happy president, Dean L. Hubbard, bought ...

With the recent launch of two new iPad applications developed for the use of electronic textbooks, Apple may help ease the sore backs of students lugging heavy books around campus. Despite the ...

Major textbook publishers are firing the first shots in a format war over their electronic editions, with several players hoping to control distribution to students and to make used textbooks extinct ...

You can purchase and read Kindle books on a Mac. E-books purchased on Amazon automatically show up in your Kindle app on a ...

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Publishers say the program saves students money. But some student advocates say colleges are often not making clear how to opt out or even how much students are saving. By Ann Carrns Colleges are ...

Northwest Missouri State University makes an ambitious effort to replace its hefty print textbooks with electronic courseware. For years, Northwest Missouri State University took an innovative ...