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The Direct Textbook app turns smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices into textbook barcode scanners; users can either scan the barcode of the textbook they need or manually enter its ISBN ...

Educational software developer Kno, which has focused on producing interactive digital textbooks for the iPad, is extending its textbook app to the Android and Windows 7 operating systems. Kno is also ...

With the recent launch of two new iPad applications developed for the use of electronic textbooks, Apple may help ease the sore backs of students lugging heavy books around campus. Despite the ...

Apple has unveiled two new iPad apps designed to transform the way students and educators read and engage with textbooks. The company introduced the new apps, called iBook 2 and iBook Author, during ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kno, Inc., www.kno.com, a pioneer in education software, announced today its digital textbook Android application is available in the U.S. and internationally in ...

It may not be great as a phone--don’t scream, Apple fans, but the iPhone has taken some knocks on call quality and battery life, though the latest version has improved--but the iPhone is getting more ...

— -- The sizzling rate at which e-books are growing suggests that digital textbooks almost certainly will be the norm when your kids' kids are in school. What we don't know is how quickly a ...