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| College Textbooks "Obscenely Overpriced" and Inaccurate Scoop.co.nz College history students today are required to buy "obscenely overpriced" textbooks that are "a vapid stew of half-truths and hilarious factual errors dumbed down to whatever reading level is desired," the dean of a new history college says. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| College Students Provide an Economics Lesson in Textbook Purchases: Renting Pays San Francisco Chronicle (press release) According to eCampus.com, one of the pioneers of online textbook retailing, nearly one in five of all college textbook purchases online today is a rental. Two years ago, online textbook rentals accounted for just 1 percent of all sales. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Chegg and College Battle of the Bands Present the Textbooks & Tickets Tour ... MarketWatch (press release) SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- After a massively successful tour last year, Chegg today announced it will once again present the Textbooks & Tickets Tour and provide free tickets to college students across the country, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Students scrimp on costly books Lancaster Newspapers A new survey released by the US Public Interest Research Group found that the price of textbooks has risen 22 percent over the past four years. In fact, the US Government Accountability Office reports, college textbook prices have increased at twice ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| E-books, a long way to go The Daily Titan The popular belief is that publishers supply students with cheaper e-book versions of the textbooks their professors request. However, e-books have a long way to go before they replace traditional college textbooks as a tool for student learning. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Find more than you could have bargained for at college store Etownian Every year at Elizabethtown College, students rush in and out of the college store to get their textbooks for classes. It works simply; the books are always organized neatly on the shelves by subject and professor. But it's hard to appreciate the ease ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 7 Hysterical Boston-Area College Spoof Twitter Accounts Boston Globe (blog) Some Boston-area college kids are devoting their remaining free hours between drinking coffee, getting drunk, and skimming textbooks to a cause that benefits everyone: spoof Twitter accounts. In 140 characters or less, they're making fun of their ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Shop around for textbooks ASU Herald "Thank God for Wal-Mart," I think some days because they really do have everything you might possibly need as a college student. Sadly, however, Wal-Mart lacks in one area for me—textbooks. Finding cheap textbooks can mean a fight to the death for a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Medical school uses iPads for learning Central Florida Future The UCF College of Medicine has lightened the load on the shoulders of medical students by replacing textbooks with iPads in an effort to provide more innovative learning methods. The college has teamed up with Inkling, a publishing platform working to ... See all stories on this topic » |
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Google Alert - college textbooks
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