Saturday, July 24, 2010

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McGraw Hill says textbook sales hit by US state cuts
Reuters
The textbook business accounted for 38 percent of the company's second-quarter revenue of $1.5 billion. But the school education group's revenue fell by 4 ...
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Indiana board reviewing new science, health books
Chicago Tribune
AP Indiana education officials are considering new science and health textbooks, and the public has the coming month to comment on them. ...
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New Law May Reduce Textbook Prices
Daily Californian
By Zoe Filippenko After struggling to pay the increasing costs of higher education, students could see a decrease in textbook prices and an overall ...
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SBOE to consider resolution on what textbooks can prohibit
Examiner.com
The Texas State Board of Education may take up debate on a resolution which would prohibit textbook publishers from offering texts with a decided bias ...
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Textbook Rentals Coming To Central, Eastern, Southern And Western CT State ...
Hartford Courant
A textbook rental program is being launched that will allow students to rent textbooks for 45 percent of the cost of purchasing a new textbook. ...
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Go b(u)y the book?
Rocky Mount Telegram
Now, students also can search dozens of websites for deals to buy or even rent textbooks, including mainstream sellers such as Amazon, Biblio.com, ...
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Rocky Mount Telegram
Colleges introduce rentals by the book
Ct Post
Ramona Strang, manager of Sacred Heart's bookstore, said 30 percent of textbooks on her campus will be rentable. Books that come in bundles with CDs or ...
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IPad Goes Under The Gauntlet At Universities This Fall
Wired News
(At least, this is true if you're comparing the iPad against a stack of brand new textbooks; the savings may disappear if used books are brought into the ...
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Trustees decline to change portrayal of Islam
OCRegister
"If we start messing with supplementary materials for this textbook we're going to be doing it for all textbooks." "Supplementary materials need to come as ...
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Oakland teachers investigated for helping students cheat
abc7news.com
In one case, they found a Skyline High School biology teacher who allowed students to use their textbooks to find answers they didn't know. ...
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