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 Packet Online | PRINCETON: BOOKS: 'Steve Jobs' by Walter Isaacson Packet Online The fabulous innovations from a century ago, like cameras and telephones, are now wrapped into tiny packages that also offer music, video, and text of all sorts — books, newspapers, magazines, and The One — the Internet. Institutions are falling all ... The Book of Jobs |
 Network World (blog) | RIM's PlayBook offers a textbook lesson in how a company can debacle itself Network World (blog) Why is the PlayBook such a perfect textbook example of what companies should not do when creating new products? Let us count the ways: -The PlayBook was clearly rushed to the market. The success of Apple's iPad took just about every tech company by ... |
Morton Publishing Company Announces New Management Structure DigitalJournal.com (press release) Morton Publishing Company, a college textbook publishing company today announced a new leadership team focused on driving the company's ambitious growth initiatives through market expansion and technology advancements to bring students high-quality ... |
Research for Better Teaching Releases Kindle Edition of The Skillful Teacher ... DigitalJournal.com (press release) Bringing this “gold standard” textbook to the Kindle platform meets the increasing market demand for electronically-delivered publications. Now in its sixth edition as a paperback, The Skillful Teacher has been used extensively in many colleges and ... |
 CIO Today | E-textbooks beyond Apple's iBooks Washington Post Apple's iBooks got a lot of attention, but there are several other alternatives in the e-textbook space that show promise. For example, the Nature Publishing Group recently launched a new text called Principles of Biology, a constantly updating science ... New Tools Make Self-Publishing E-Books Easier |
Leanna Landsmann: E-readers can enhance kids' curiosity for books Detroit Free Press I'm amazed how much he reads on it, but I worry -- does he understand what he's reading on the Kindle as well as he does reading books? Plus, I miss reading books at bedtime with him. Answer: With many children getting e-readers, their transition from ... |
Revising the "Textbook" on Liver Metabolism Offers New Targets for Diabetes ... HealthCanal.com PHILADELPGHIA - A team led by researchers from the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (IDOM) at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, has overturned a "textbook" view of what the body does after a meal. |
No textbooks blamed for low test scores Tidewater News FRANKLIN—Franklin school officials are looking into what delayed the delivery of math textbooks after the grandmother of a high school student claimed only two students passed a state-required Algebra II test. “Some of the kids didn't get books until ... |
 The Bookseller | Academic Booksellers To Address Digital Textbooks And Increased University Fees Booktrade.info Academic booksellers and publishers are set to debate how the new challenges presented by digital textbooks and increased university fees will impact on bookselling to students. Waterstones, John Smith & Son, Marylebone Books and BML Bowker are among ... Academic publishing facing "unprecedented challenges" |
Schools need textbooks, not chequebooks Illawarra Mercury (blog) There's no reason why Australia could not have an education system twice as good - with benefits spread equally - at half the price. But that might involve waving about some textbooks, rather than some chequebooks. Jack Waterford is Editor-at-Large at ... |
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