CourseSmart Brings 7,000+ Textbooks to the iPhone and iPod Touch
The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on CourseSmart, a service now offering e-textbooks for students on the iPhone and iPod touch. The platform consists of a free eTextbooks for the iPhone application [App Store] that interfaces with a student's free CourseSmart account, where the student is able to rent electronic editions of over 7,000 textbooks for his or her iPhone or iPod touch.
The new applications, free for subscribers to CourseSmart LLC, will let students access their full electronic textbooks, read their digital notes and search for specific words and phrases.
"Nobody is going to use their iPhone to do their homework, but this does provide real mobile learning," said Frank Lyman, CourseSmart's executive vice president. "If you're in a study group and you have a question, you can immediately access your text."
CourseSmart, which was created in 2007 as a joint venture of six higher-education publishers, including McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson PLC's Pearson Education, operates on a subscription model. Typically students rent a book for 180 days; when their subscription expires, they lose access to the title.
The company, which doesn't release financial results, offers its digital books at about 50% of the retail price of the corresponding physical textbook. Although students can't resell their e-textbooks, Mr. Lyman said they typically don't get more than 50% of what they paid for a new book when they resell it.
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If Apple had a larger format, like a TABLET, this might be worth it. Digging around and spending hours squinting at an iPhone for school work is insane.
The future is here, finally.
I knew something like this would eventually come out. When I was in college I kept waiting and waiting and nothing was released. Things like this will make it so much easier for students.
TURKEY.
If Apple had a larger format, like a TABLET, this might be worth it. Digging around and spending hours squinting at an iPhone for school work is insane.
+1 Definitely a Tablet App
Apple would kill the higher educational market with a product that had apps like this created for the iPhone/iPod Touch. :cool: :apple:
I know there is the Amazon "kindle" "black and white"version but until it get full color, it's not an alternative. Also, the Kindle software would have to be enhanced... imagine having assignments from the profs e-mailed to students. Students who missed class can view a virtual classroom taping via youtube or something. Endless possibilities for a book reader of this sort or for Apple Tablet...
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