Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it ...

Whether children are currently going to school in person, learning remotely or doing a mix of both, digital tools and texts are becoming much more commonplace for K-12 education during the COVID-19 ...

Plenty of folks see the move to digital textbooks as "inevitable." After all, more and more people are buying e-books and e-readers. Yet college students in particular continue to turn up their noses ...

Is there a college student — or parent — who has not winced at the price of a textbook? Today's digital textbooks are no different. Most now require an access code for a fee or are tied to automatic ...

Japan is joining the shift to electronic textbooks, approving digital technology-based materials as official school textbooks ...

Teachers in Coon Rapids, Minnesota had all but disposed of their school district’s statistics textbook, constantly replacing its outdated information with their own notes and homework problems. When ...

A digital sketch, by the author, of participants discussing their use of e-textbooks. Ekaterina Rzyankina, Author provided (no reuse) In the past four years it’s become increasingly common for part or ...

I read with interest Gilbert T. Sewall’s Commentary “Digital Textbooks: They’re Coming—But Will They Be Better?” in your April 7, 2010, issue, but was dismayed to see that the director of the American ...

Shortly after his world history students began a pilot program testing a digital textbook for the iPad, Ken Halla noticed something different: His students were actually reading their textbooks. “How ...

Company announces today iBooks 2, a "new textbook experience" for the iPad and Apple's attempt to bury traditional schoolbooks. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Diet enacted legislation on June 10 to formally introduce digital textbooks, with the education ministry ...