Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it ...

TOKYO >> Making digital textbooks “official textbooks” that will be free and screened by the government, just like physical textbooks, is the focus of a draft report for the Japan education minister’s ...

Whether children are currently going to school in person, learning remotely or doing a mix of both, digital tools and texts are becoming much more commonplace for K-12 education during the COVID-19 ...

Plenty of folks see the move to digital textbooks as "inevitable." After all, more and more people are buying e-books and e-readers. Yet college students in particular continue to turn up their noses ...

Digital textbooks have gotten a lot of ink in recent months. In January, Apple attracted attention when it announced its foray into the field with the iBook, a multimedia-rich textbook for the iPad ...

Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.

Japan is joining the shift to electronic textbooks, approving digital technology-based materials as official school textbooks ...

I read with interest Gilbert T. Sewall’s Commentary “Digital Textbooks: They’re Coming—But Will They Be Better?” in your April 7, 2010, issue, but was dismayed to see that the director of the American ...

Is there a college student — or parent — who has not winced at the price of a textbook? Today's digital textbooks are no different. Most now require an access code for a fee or are tied to automatic ...

A digital sketch, by the author, of participants discussing their use of e-textbooks. Ekaterina Rzyankina, Author provided (no reuse) In the past four years it’s become increasingly common for part or ...

Shortly after his world history students began a pilot program testing a digital textbook for the iPad, Ken Halla noticed something different: His students were actually reading their textbooks. “How ...