January 23, 2012
Last Thursday, Apple held a live event at the Guggenheim in New York, where the company introduced its latest software, iBooks Author, which some critics are calling a game changer for schools, writers, and book publishers. iBooks Author is designed to enable writers and publishers to create multimedia e-textbooks that can be uploaded and sold on the Apple’s iBooks store and viewed in the updated iBooks 2 app.
October 4, 2011
Today’s generation has the best of the online and offline worlds. We didn’t have websites which told us where to find (rent or buy) cheap textbooks. But today’s generation just has to type in a URL and hey presto, there are more than a dozen sites plying cheap textbooks for sale or rent. So, let’s take a look at ten websites where you can get college textbooks for cheap.
August 3, 2011
One of the biggest shocks for me when I first enrolled in college was the insane cost of textbooks. Unfortunately, there is really no way to cut out this problem, but if you don’t want to carry around some ratty textbooks with you everywhere you go, there is the option to buy them in an electronic format.
May 30, 2009
Wiki is the Hawaiian word for quick. Being quick in every aspect – in using it and editing it – is a key factor in the success of Wikis. Another factor is the hunger of people for information, knowledge and understanding. The faster, the better. If you have ever been caught up in reading Wikipedia [...]
February 27, 2009
Do you have a ton of books sitting on your shelves? Would you like to get rid of them and make space for new books? With the websites introduced in this post you can swap your books movies, games and music CDs for stuff you really want. Bookcrossing in this post refers to exchanging the [...]
December 28, 2008
It’s a new year, and the beginning of a new semester in school. Students who didn’t do so hot last year have probably made a New Year resolution to improve their grades. To help you all with the next semester, I’ve decided to make a list of extremely helpful web tools that will make school [...]
August 21, 2008
As a college student, I would have to say that for me the most difficult part of financing higher education is tuition. Going to a private institution, and even a public institution, can be a very expensive life cost. Fortunately, there are scholarships and grants scattered all over the place just waiting for students to [...]
