October 7, 2009 :: "Amazon.com Inc. is launching an international version of its Kindle electronic-book reader in 100 countries around the world – but not Canada. With Wednesday's $40 (U.S.) reduction on the Kindle, the device now costs $259. It debuted in 2007 at $399 and started this year at $359, before another price cut in July..."

n/d :: "Mediabistro.com's two-day eBook Summit will take a closer look at the changing digital publishing industry, from the perspectives of content creators and of publishers. Leaders in the field will uncover business development opportunities, and highlight the latest technological innovations currently driving the future of digital publishing..."

n/d :: "The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the League for Innovation in the Community College and many other community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and especially open textbooks in community college courses. For more details, see the It Takes a Consortium to Support Open Textbooks article in the January/February 2009 issue of Educause Review ma

September 24, 2009 :: " ... But through a new initiative state university system officials plan to announce today, Florida college students can get digital versions of some of those pricey textbooks for free. Students who really want a print version can order one custom-bound for between $30 and $50 — far cheaper than even many used textbooks. The project, dubbed Orange Grove Texts Plus, is a partnership involving the University Press of Florida, the state university system's nonprofit publishing arm; the V

October 3, 2009 :: "For the BlackBerry users among you, here is a quick guide on how to read eBooks on your device..."

September 29, 2009 :: "... Time is of the essence. As a general rule, digital products still only comprise a small fraction of sales: Around 60 per cent of those polled estimate that considerably less than ten per cent of their revenue will come from digital sources in 2009. However, this will change in the next two years in the opinion of those polled: 41 per cent of those polled calculate sales of up to ten per cent for 2011 and 58 per cent anticipate that digital products will comprise a considerably hig

September 25, 2009:: "With more e-readers hitting the U.S. market, analysts predict a big uptick in device sales in late 2010, with a strong surge in the popularity of electronic textbooks used in high schools and colleges in time for school in the fall of 2011. The market for e-textbooks is considered a rich one, but it is also governed by many factors, including the cost of e-readers. They can run about $400 -- the price of the new Irex DR800SG announced yesterday -- putting them beyond the reach of many

Efforts should be made to overcome the remaining obstacles to their broad acceptance, says editorial.

July, 209 :: "Amid the important and often heated debate over education reforms such as merit-based teacher pay and charter schools, the nation is missing an obvious opportunity to use new technology to improve dramatically the education our children receive. The new thinking should start with the heavy, often outdated textbooks students carry in their backpacks and read at school or home. We shouldn't wait a decade or two to begin to achieve what is inevitable -- an education system where each American sch