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Tags: eBooks, Literacy, Digital Divide, free kindle books, Test scores, Youth Literacy

Digital textbooks: The old (new) college try1 comment

kindlesforkids wrote 3 weeks ago: It was bound to happen sooner or later, but barely six months after it was introduced, the Kindle is … more »

Tags: Tech Tools, Education, schools, ereader, kindle, university press, college textbook

Amazon E-Book Sales to Hit $2.5B in 2012?(Hear that Steve?)

kindlesforkids wrote 3 weeks ago: Last month at Book Expo America, I heard Jeff Bezos say that Amazon had been selling e-books for nea … more »

Tags: Books, eBooks, ereader, Reading, Tech Tools, Amazon, Apple, iTunes, kindle

bitTorrent, e-books and piracy - NYT Tech guru David Pogue's experiment

kindlesforkids wrote 4 weeks ago: For the last month or so, David Pogue, the New York Times technology columnist, has been posting his … more »

Tags: Tech Tools, eBooks, ereader, david pogue, o'reilly media, Missing Manual

Paul Krugman, the Grateful Dead and copyright: "Just tape it!"

kindlesforkids wrote 1 month ago: It’s a strange and brave new world when you can read the noted economist and NY Times op-ed co … more »

Tags: Books, eBooks, ereader, kindle, Literacy, Tech Tools, Esther Dyson, greatful dead, NY Times

Welcome to the Age of the Wikitext!

kindlesforkids wrote 1 month ago: An interesting item in May/June issue of Multimedia & Internet @ Schools on the future of the te … more »

Tags: Books, eBooks, Education, ereader, kindle, Literacy, schools, Tech Tools, e-reader

Scholastic 2008 Kids and Reading Report Results

kindlesforkids wrote 1 month ago: This week marked the release of the bi-annual study of trends among kids and reading in the U.S. Som … more »

Tags: Literacy, Tech Tools, Education, Books, Reading, E-Books, Scholastic, Kids and Reading, educational technology

Mills and Boon for lunch2 comments

Ray-Anne wrote 1 month ago: I  I am still catching up with a backlog of interesting ‘STUFF’ that I put to one side … more »

Tags: Business, Publishers and Pitches, Harlequin Mills and Boon

At your (21st Century) library now: "Super Smash Brothers Brawl"

kindlesforkids wrote 1 month ago: Instead of encountering white-haired ladies telling patrons to “shhh!”, visitors to a mo … more »

Tags: Literacy, Tech Tools, Books, Reading, kindle, kids, Libraries, Wii, Video Games

The Kindle at BEA: "She moved through the fair..."

kindlesforkids wrote 1 month ago: I just returned from Book Expo America, a confab of 25,000 book publishers, sellers and authors, wh … more »

Tags: Books, ereader, Literacy, Reading, Amazon, Bea, book publishers, eBooks, Gutenberg

Breaking up is hard to do... Borders and Amazon part company

kindlesforkids wrote 1 month ago: Like Brad and Jennifer, Tom and Nicole, the rumors surrounding the breakup of Borders and Amazon … more »

Tags: Books, eBooks, kindle, ereader, Amazon, BookStores, Borders, Sony

Score: Teen Fiction 1, Video games 0

kindlesforkids wrote 1 month ago: An encouraging piece of news appeared in Newsweek’s web edition on May 19: Generation R (R Is … more »

Tags: Literacy, Reading, eBooks, Newsweek, Teen Fiction, chronicle of narnia, Harry Potter, Social Media, facebook

Cracks in the Dam: Publishers dabble in digital tales

kindlesforkids wrote 1 month ago: The following appeared in the May 22 edition of Canada’s Globe & Mail newspaper: A pair of … more »

Tags: ereader, Literacy, Anansi, browse inside, HarperCollins, WOWIO

Stranger in a Strange Land (with apologies to Robert Heinlein)

kindlesforkids wrote 2 months ago: I just returned from spending four days with approximately 18,000 reading teachers from around the w … more »

Tags: Literacy, Education, schools, Books, Reading, eBooks, textbooks, Rafe Esquith, Hobart Shakespeareans

Freeloaders unite! YAFTOS is here(Yet another free textbook online site)2 comments

kindlesforkids wrote 2 months ago: Readers of this blog have seen references in earlier posts to a couple of start-ups in the free e-bo … more »

Tags: Literacy, Education, eBooks, Flatworld Knowledge, WOWIO, freeload press

Tarzan Economics: It's a jungle out there...1 comment

kindlesforkids wrote 3 months ago: There have been an increasing number of posts recently about the availability (or lack of) textbooks … more »

Tags: Literacy, DRM, Flatworld Knowledge, Pearson education, Publishing, Tarzan economics

Reading the fine print: "Amsterdam" on a Blackberry?

kindlesforkids wrote 3 months ago: An interesting commentary on how e-books are infiltrating all sorts of gadgets appeared in today … more »

Tags: kindle, Reading, E-Books, Gutenberg, Ian McEwin, Lee Gomes, manga, Marshall McLuhan

HarperCollins' Dips its toe in the Digital Pool

kindlesforkids wrote 3 months ago: As they say, everything old is new again. Remember back in the 80s, GM created the Saturn Car compan … more »

Tags: eBooks, Publishing, kindle, HarperCollins, Robert Miller

Chicken/Egg dilemma: Textbook publishers rejected by the digital world?

kindlesforkids wrote 4 months ago: In an article appearing in the March 10 issue of  the Michigan State U student paper, the author qu … more »

Tags: eBooks, Education, ereader, Literacy, College, E-Books, kindle, Publishers, textbooks


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