Earlier this week Apple held its big education announcement to show off the new iBooks, iBook Author, and iTunes U. Sure, we’ve been able to try out these new apps since they were announced, but maybe you want to see Phil Schiller and others up on stage talking about them. Apple has put up the more »

As part of its education announcement today Apple announced an update to iBooks which will bring interactive textbooks to the platform. Apple calls textbooks in iBooks 2 a “new textbook experience” which allows students to directly interact with their textbooks. As with any books in the iBookstore, textbooks will be able to use videos, photos, more »

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 »

When Microsoft confirmed and promptly cancelled the Courier, many of us were heartbroken. The idea of a dual screen tablet was enticing, especially with what the product videos showed off. The Kno may not be the Courier exactly, but it does promise a dual-screen tablet that has the chance to make it to market. The 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 »

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 »