As college students prepare for another enriching year of studying, Amazon wants to make purchasing textbooks for the upcoming academic year a little easier and cost effective. If you own a Kindle or a device with the free Kindle app, then you are already set to take advantage of Amazon’s unique Kindle Textbook Rental service. more »

The days of students lugging around 10 pounds of textbooks may be limited. Pearson and McGraw-Hill have invested an untold amount of money into a company called Inkling. Inkling sells textbooks on the iPad from courses such as biological sciences and sociology. Inkling only has 14 textbooks available at the moment, but the company expects to have close to 100 textbooks by the fall.

Kno is attempting to change the way students interact with textbooks by offering 14.1-inch tablets to display electronic versions of the expensive tomes. The Kno comes in a single-screen and double-screen version, and today the pricing for both has finally been announced. The single-screen Know will sell for $599, with the double-screen going for $899. more »

Used textbooks, the lifeblood of my college years may soon be history thanks to ebooks. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, school leaders and aggressive ebook companies are looking to reduce the cost of books for students, even to go so far as to include the cost of the ebook in the course fee. more »

Ever since the e-book market started heating up, eTextbooks have been a subject of much discussion. Textbook sales make up a considerable portion of the book publishing market, and nobody really enjoys carrying heavy textbooks around with them all day. The Kindle DX was a possible solution to this issue, as is the upcoming Kno more »

With Windows 7 releasing next month, it only makes sense that Microsoft would do whatever it can to drum up support for the new OS. There were pre-order price cuts over the summer, though it was fairly easy to miss out on, and was really only announced among those who follow the tech industry closely. more »

If you’re like most college students, money is super tight and looking at the price of textbooks can bring on an instant panic attack. To help with this expense, Chegg.com has launched a SMS service to provide instants quotes on the rental of student textbooks. A new mobile site has also been introduced by the more »

For a couple years now, several schools have been offering up iPhones to incoming college Freshman. Will specific phone technology be the next standard thing on the “required” list for students soon? One of the latest schools in the US to make owning either an iPhone or an iPod touch an actual course requirement is more »

If you are a college student worried about your business being posted on the college gossip blog, JuicyCampus, you don’t need to worry anymore. The site was permanently shut down on Thursday by CEO and founder Matt Ivester.

Ivester states that it wasn’t for legal reasons that JuicyCampus was shut down, but rather a decline in ad revenue. The website has been a popular spot for college students since its launch in August of 2007. Users were permitted to post anonymous gossip tidbits about their fellow students with some of the remarks being malicious. Students posted info about other’s sex lives, STD history, drug problems and other nasty tidbits. With the closing, all previously posted comments will be deleted. Many students felt JuicyCampus used slander to permanently tarnish reputations.

Princeton University has become the latest to announce that they have plans to begin offering Kindle editions of their textbooks. Joining other universities such as Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley the Princeton textbooks will be available beginning in the fall semester. While there was not any mention of the pricing for the Kindle edition books, more »