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Research and Markets: Focus on Increasing Education Coverage to Augment E ...
Business Wire (press release)
Mumbai, India - February 20, 2012 - Netscribes (India) Pvt. Ltd., a knowledge consulting solutions company, announces the launch of its report E-Learning Market in India 2012. E-learning market in India is still at a nascent stage and is expected to ...

The Bookseller
Academic Booksellers To Address Digital Textbooks And Increased University Fees
Booktrade.info
Academic booksellers and publishers are set to debate how the new challenges presented by digital textbooks and increased university fees will impact on bookselling to students. Waterstones, John Smith & Son, Marylebone Books and BML Bowker are among ...
Academic publishing facing "unprecedented challenges"The Bookseller

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IADC SkillSTICK Marks Major Advance in Personal Training Management
PR Web (press release)
The device can be used off line for training from preloaded eLearning courses and can store student progress and assessments associated with the courses. The International Association of Drilling Contractors is pleased to introduce IADC SkillSTICK*, ...

GIA: E-learning market will be worth $107bn by 2015
Virtual College
A rising interest in online learning courses will result in the value of the global e-learning sector hitting $107 billion (£67.47 billion) by 2015, a study has reported. The investigation, from Global Industry Analysts (GIA), found distance learning ...

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CSU to trade ad campaign for cheaper textbooks
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco State University sophomore, Ginamarie Gianandrea, with her $150 unbound spanish textbook, on Thursday Feb. 16, 2010. New initiatives in California take aim at reducing the cost of textbooks. One company has just signed an agreement with ...

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IDOM researchers overturn textbook view of liver metabolism
News-Medical.net
A team led by researchers from the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (IDOM) at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, has overturned a "textbook" view of what the body does after a meal. The study appears online this ...

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Over $1500 in Textbooks Stolen From Bookstore
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
A man unaffiliated with UB stole $1656.50 worth of textbooks from the UB Bookstore on Saturday. He returned on Monday to try to do it again. Terrance McDuffie, a 24-year-old man from East Amherst, asked a bookstore associate behind the textbook counter ...

CIO Today
E-textbooks beyond Apple's iBooks
Washington Post
Apple's iBooks got a lot of attention, but there are several other alternatives in the e-textbook space that show promise. For example, the Nature Publishing Group recently launched a new text called Principles of Biology, a constantly updating science ...
New Tools Make Self-Publishing E-Books EasierCIO Today

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Students Want More Value from Textbooks and at Lower Prices, says New Research ...
Albany Times Union
The first installment in Volume Two of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)'s ongoing Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education survey shows that students are rebelling against the rising costs of textbooks in a variety of ways.

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Revising the 'textbook' on liver metabolism offers new targets for diabetes drugs
PhysOrg.com
A team led by researchers from the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (IDOM) at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, has overturned a "textbook" view of what the body does after a meal. The study appears online this ...

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Network World
RIM's PlayBook offers a textbook lesson in how a company can debacle itself
Network World
Why is the PlayBook such a perfect textbook example of what companies should not do when creating new products? Let us count the ways: -The PlayBook was clearly rushed to the market. The success of Apple's iPad took just about every tech company by ...

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Reduce high prices for textbooks
The Bridgeton News - NJ.com
By Letters to the Editor/The News of Cumberland County Here at Rutgers University and many other colleges and universities across the United States, the prices of textbooks are expensive and not reducing. The NJPIRG Student Chapters Spring 2012 Program ...

mediabistro.com
Utah to Adopt Open Source Textbooks - eBookNewser
mediabistro.com
Starting in the next couple months, Utah is going to develop and release open source digital textbooks for science, and mathematics, and English. Utah is by no means the first state to push for open source digital textbooks; several states including ...

Focus Taiwan News Channel
Talk of the Day -- Textbook accounts of the ROC worry ex-premier
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Former Premier Hau Pei-tsun, a four-star general-turned- politician, has expressed concern that school textbook accounts of the history and geography of the Republic of China might be misleading the younger generation as to their knowledge about their ...

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PR Web (press release)
Exhibitor Sponsorships Almost Sold Out for 2012 Lectora User Conference
PR Web (press release)
e-Learning conference will soon fill all exhibitor sponsorship opportunities for upcoming event in Chicago. The exclusive setting of the Lectora User Conference is a perfect opportunity for exhibitors and eLearning professionals to connect on a whole ...

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The corporate learning shuffle
ZDNet (blog)
The corporate 'learning' business has always been an interesting place, and once the internet came along eLearning quickly became a very big deal indeed during the last dot com boom. The 'Knowledge Management' movement, which Ikujiro Nonaka had lit the ...

E-learning 'can be better than traditional education'
Virtual College
President of the International E-Learning Association (IELA) Dr David Guralnick explained these online learning tools enable people to practice tasks in realistic situations. This can result in online training becoming "more engaging and more ...

The Express Tribune
Vacuum filled: Textbook on banking and finance launched
The Express Tribune
By Kazim Alam Pakistan had so far no textbook on banking and finance that described the complex relationship between the financial system and economic development in Pakistani context. PHOTO: FILE KARACHI: Blame it on either the absence of ...

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The e-textbook trend finds footing in Summit County
Vail Daily News
By Kathryn Corazzelli SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado — Digital textbooks aren't only gaining popularity across the United States, but among Summit's college students as well. In the past year alone, the number of textbook titles available for digital ...
Digital textbooks hinge on connectivityHattiesburg American
The e-textbook trend lands in Summit CountySummit Daily News

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How to Spend Less Than $100 on Textbooks Every Semester
The Quad News
By Rich Scinto Nearly three and a half years ago, I—much like my fellow starry-eyed, innocent freshmen ,spent about $500 my first semester on an array of textbooks, laminated Spanish charts and whatever else Efollett textbook rental told me was the ...

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