digital textbooks

Over the past few years, change has come to the textbook market in a big way. Chegg, one of the first companies to bring textbook purchasing and rentals online and reach a sizable audience, has begun

When Flat World Knowledge first emerged back in 2007, the company was on a mission to overturn the textbook industry, and the staid world of educational publishing along with it. One of the pioneers i

Google today <a target="_blank" href="http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2013/08/get-ready-for-college-with-textbooks-on.html">announced</a> that its Play store now <a target="_blank" href="https://p

With the word beginning to quietly leak out last week (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1493667/000095010313003913/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml">thanks to its regulatory

Since first emerging early last year, Boston-based startup <a target="_blank" href="https://www.boundless.com/">Boundless</a> has been on a mission to give students a free alternative to the financial

Founded in 2007, Flat World Knowledge was one of the early pioneers in the move to bring free and open access to textbooks to students and educators. The independent publisher offered its learning con

Since its launch in 2009, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.inkling.com/">Inkling</a> has been on a mission to reinvent publishing for the mobile, digital era by building engaging, interactive lear

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.simpletuition.com/student_loans_home">SimpleTuition</a>, a company that offers online tools, tips and advice to college students to help them save money on educatio

In 1998, seeing an underserved niche in the textbook market, Jeff Sherwood and his three co-founders launched BIGWORDS. By the beginning of 2000, they had grown from a team of four to a team of 250, h

Since it first appeared earlier this year, Boston-based educational startup <a target="_blank" href="http://www.boundless.com/">Boundless</a> has been on a mission to ensure that college students have

It seems it's a big news day for eBooks and eTextbooks. Google is winding down its <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/05/google-winding-down-e-book-reselling-program-to-focus-on-play/">eBook serv