Comments on: Textbooks Now On iPhone, iPod Touch

By: Textbooks Coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch | GottaBeMobile.com

Textbooks Coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch | GottaBeMobile.com — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:09:06 +0000

[...] looks like the Amazon Kindle DX will have some competition in the textbook market. The AppleBlog is linking to a Wall St. Journal report (subscription required) saying that 12 major textbook [...]

By: iPhone in Education: The Textbooks are Coming | Technology | PDA & Smart Phone News & Reviews

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:20:42 +0000

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By: iPhone in Education: The Textbooks are Coming | Just Another Mobile Monday

iPhone in Education: The Textbooks are Coming | Just Another Mobile Monday — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:22:58 +0000

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By: e-Textbooks Hit the iPhone — How Practical is That?

e-Textbooks Hit the iPhone — How Practical is That? — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:20:00 +0000

[...] experience, but the tiny iPhone screen not so much. Maybe our friends at TheAppleBlog have the right idea – the iPhone app is a good forum for searching e-textbooks for those bits of information. [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:47:29 +0000

Selling textbooks back to the bookstore is a gamble. Pre-requisite level business, science and math classes using current editions have the highest resell value (typically 50-60%). Resell value for humanities textbooks are typically much, much lower.

But, if the bookstore thinks the textbook is not going to be used the next semester, the resell value falls to 0-10% at the campus bookstore. Savy students can try to sell online, but many students get $0 for a subset of the books they’d like to sell.

By: name

name — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:03:56 +0000

Ah, the first real reason to buy the iTablet that I’ve seen.

By: rickdude

rickdude — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:18:57 +0000

I’ve just been over to CourseSmart and taken a look at some of the titles that would interest me. My feeling is that they’re missing a big opportunity. For me, the fact that I’m renting rather than buying, and that these are e-books rather than physical objects that I have to carry and find space for, means that I’m primed to get “the course textbook” and 2 or 3 others that cover somewhat different selections of topics in somewhat different ways. I can understand that total sales may never be enough to offer textbooks at $5 or $10, but how about offering additional books in the same subject area for an extra $10 per book, after they’ve extracted more than $50 for the first book? Bob Smith is right: however cool the basic idea, they’re going to kill it if they don’t convince people they’re giving value.

By: rickdude

rickdude — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:33:31 +0000

Uh, Amos, did you see this bit?:

>e-textbooks through CourseSmart are roughly 50 percent cheaper than their >paper-based counterparts, on average

I haven’t seen any mention that prices will later be lowered.

By: CourseSmart traz sete mil livros didáticos para iPhones/iPods touch | MacMagazine

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:11:12 +0000

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By: DIIA Blog » Blog Archive » Ready or Not, here come the e-textbooks…

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:45:41 +0000

[...] in a study group and you have a question, you can immediately access your text. (quoted from this entry at The Apple [...]