Kno turns old-fashioned educational textbooks into interactive learning experiences. Adding links, multimedia and features like flashcards and quizzes, Kno already offers a powerful experience for ...

A trio of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has created the first-ever fully interactive advanced organic chemistry textbook, called "The Portable Chemist’s Consultant: A Survival Guide ...

Personalized learning company Cerego is teaming up with VitalSource, the ed-tech arm of book distribution company Ingram. VitalSource says its BookShelf platform already offers access to a library of ...

Principles of Biology is a “born digital” textbook, with all materials designed specifically for consumption by students via browsers on desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Each of the 196 ...

Mary Kay helps BYU student Sean Havas buy a textbook in the BYU Bookstore. RedShelf is trying to create a more interactive experience for students purchasing digital textbooks. The BYU Store and ...

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Looking to address the problems posed by high textbook prices, the used textbook market and the threat of digital piracy, Macmillan is launching, Dynamic Books, a new digital publishing platform and ...

Fountainhead’s high-quality academic content will be fully integrated into Top Hat’s all-in-one teaching platform, enabling educators who adopt these titles to deliver transformative student-centric ...

Through a deal with publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, education software developer Kno, which provides e-textbooks for higher education, is adding interactive K-12 textbooks to its iPad, Android, ...

Education software company Kno has debuted Advance, a new platform that can convert PDFs and other flat document files into interactive electronic textbooks at no cost. Kno is primarily known for its ...

Through a $249,000 grant from the Next Generation Learning Challenge, the University and Odigia have created BioBook™, an interactive replacement for the traditional college-level biology textbook.

The widespread adoption of digital textbooks has been slow to take off… slower than necessary, some believe. What has happened in the wake of this frustration at academic publishing is a number of ...