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August 20th, 2010 · by spolanka · No Comments

I can tell that fall is in the air, nearly every article on my list this week has to do with eTextbooks.  Other good ones are there too, check them out.  Happy reading.

Robert Boissy of Springer on the Future of Ebooks and Libraries

An iPad book for the deaf

The State of the E-Textbook

Textbooks Up Their Game – WSJ

CourseSmart offers iPad App, iPad Give Away

Project Gutenberg on quest to digitize 1 billion books

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