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10 Places To Buy Digital Textbooks Online / DegreeDirectory.org > Education Innovation Guide / November 2008

Digital textbooks are becoming more popular as the rising costs of college cramp student budgets. This article details the ten best places to find cheap digital textbooks online and provides a list of websites that offer free digital textbooks,

#1 Zinio
#2 iChapters
#3 CourseSmart
#4 eCampus.com
#5 McGraw-Hill eBookstore
#6 Taylor and Francis eBookstore
#7 Books on Board
#8 Vital Source Bookshelf
#9 CafeScribe
#10 Universal Digital Textbooks

Where to Find Free Digital Textbooks

Not every digital textbook costs money--there are some textbooks that can be legally accessed for free over the web. The following sites offer a wide range of no-cost digital textbooks.

• Textbook Revolution
• Freeload Press
• Textbooksfree.org

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Ezine Articles > Free Digital Textbooks For K-12 Students

Free Digital Textbooks For K-12 Students /  Ezine Articles /  Patricia Fioriello

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Digital renovations in spreading literacy have seen the emergence of mobile learning technologies, digital textbooks, podcasting lectures etc. Free digital textbooks have provided complete liberty with online education. These textbooks are customized to meet the necessities of the K-12 students. [snip].

[snip]. Online textbooks allow easy customization of the student curriculum, providing space to mix and match lessons, worksheets etc, from different grades.

Digital online textbooks provide the added advantage of being saved online. Free digital textbooks are accessible anytime, anywhere, with the least concern of losing or misplacing the materials.[snip].

Each student has unique requirements. A student might need extra attention in a particular subject than the rest. Online textbooks enable the teachers to select lessons based on several grades. Thus, a student who has an aptitude for math can continue to further their math studies from curriculum of higher grades with the free digital textbooks. [snip].

Free digital textbooks can also be of great help for the academically challenged students. The extra attention that these students need with special curriculum, exclusively based on their individual requirements, can easily be availed with the free digital textbooks. [snip].

With digital syllabi, lesson plans, digital instruction manuals, the free digital textbooks create a comprehensive curriculum for the home-school students. Moreover, they are an economic alternative, in comparison to the annual school-recommended texts.

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[http://ezinearticles.com/?Free-Digital-Textbooks-For-K-12-Students&id=4105353]

IT > Focus On Publishing: Another Academic Year

Focus On Publishing: Another Academic Year / Information Today / 27(8): 13-14 / 2010 / Robin Peek

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It's not that I am nostalgic for the old print age, although the textbooks then were not the student-political crisis of today. Students are keenly aware of how much their textbooks cost, and if they don't think they are getting their money's worth, it becomes the professor's fault. Indeed, when I ask students how they are doing in one of their particular courses, they often mention the textbook first, usually in the negative. And I understand how they feel. From my side of the equation, we seem to have moved into the realm of merely "making do" with a limited number of options.

So Do Without

Many folks have endured a rough couple of years. But when it comes to education, it's a challenge to ask college students to do without. Circumstances today are putting professors in the role of being "the great apologizer." As libraries slashed their collections, both digital and print, contracts for licensed services were often due in the middle of a semester. [snip].

Doing without is one issue, but drowning in apps is another problem these days. We're facing the problem of too many riches, too many extensions, too many apps, and even too many browsers. I never know which technology platform each individual student has been exposed to until I walk into a classroom for the first time. [snip].

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Perhaps the answer is to go digital, and there are definite merits to be considered for this option. However, there are technical and cultural hurdles to overcome as well. If the challenge of offering PC-and Mac-compatible software on a college campus was problematic enough in its early days, it is even worse now. [snip].

Weighing Our Options

These days, the solution keeps cycling back to digital textbooks, which are more in vogue with students who have been raised in an era of "green." Or we could ditch the entire cover-to-cover print textbook idea and collect a unique set of resources for students to use instead. [snip].

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[http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep10/index.shtml]