Textbooks Go the iTunes Route, but Buying by Chapters May Not Save Students Money - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education. By Ben Wieder The high cost of textbooks is a rising student complaint.
It inspired recent federal legislation calling on colleges to list the cost of required reading. When courses use only a portion of expensive books, it only makes matters worse. "Sometimes a professor only assigns five chapters out of a whole book," says Jennie A. Dexter, who just graduated from Oklahoma State University at Tulsa with a degree in marketing and management. Now textbook publishers are offering an experimental form of price relief: The option to buy book chapters instead of the whole thing, in electronic versions with lower prices.
McGraw-Hill and Pearson Education are among the investors in the San Francisco-based start-up Inkling, which offers multimedia-rich iPad versions of several publishers' textbooks by the chapter or by the book. For students accustomed to purchasing individual songs from Apple's iTunes store, the chapters option may seem like a logical step. The 10th edition of Sylvia S. Ms. Mr. Would You Like A $49 Electronic College Textbook With Lifetime Updates? Nature, the folks who brought you the free life sciences learning community Scitable, are today announcing “Principles of Biology”, a college level electronic textbook.
Building upon the cross-platform success of Scitable, the new textbook offers a variety of fully interactive features, including quizzes and assessments, an online gradebook for instructors, and more. Perhaps most notable in this era of nickel-and-dime upgrades and in-app purchases is that this text will be continually updated with top-notch content from Nature’s editing team at no additional cost to anyone who has purchased a copy. “Our interactive textbooks, since they are “born digital”, are designed to capitalize to the maximum degree on the progressive possibilities which digital media opens up for the education space: new distribution models, new learning models, new pricing models. Many of my college texts costs substantially more than $50 used, and they were used for only a couple of classes. Titles. Advanced Search Today the OLL has… 1,651 titles, 459 authors, and 1,156 essays in 23 categories News and Announcements [Archive]: Quotations about Liberty and Power William Graham Sumner on how "society" helps the drunkard in the gutter (1883) The American sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) observed that when the state uses tax money to help someone who is down and out on their luck it is ultimately paid for by “the forgotten man”: When you see a drunkard in the gutter, you are disgusted, but you pity him.
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