iPad textbook publisher Inkling is partnering with college bookstore provider Follett. Starting this fall, Follett will sell hundreds of Inkling titles in its over 900 college bookstores — including Stanford and UC Berkeley — and on its website. Read More »
Higher education costs have skyrocketed by over 430 percent since the 1980s. Now two startups aim to make college courses more affordable. Coursera offers free online courses from universities like Stanford and Princeton. And a new tool from Akademos helps professors find less expensive — or … Read More »
The majority of U.S. college students now prefer digital formats whether they’re reading textbooks or “fun” books, according to a new survey… Read More »
The battle for the college digital textbook market — including startups like Inkling and Kno — gets a fair amount of attention. But the K-… Read More »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is not the only company to make an HTML5-based app announcement today: E-textbook company Kno is now allowing students t… Read More »
Just in time for the back-to-school season, iPad interactive textbook publisher Inkling has secured $17 million in Series B funding from inv… Read More »
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