Encyclopaedia Britannica textbooks and an online study module will hit Indian schools from April 2010 in four subjects - computer science, mathematics, environmental studies and general knowledge

The climbing cost of college textbooks has been the subject of congressional hearings and legislative efforts in almost three dozen states. A federal law that takes effect in July is aimed at controlling textbook costs. It requires publishers to tell professors the price of textbooks when they choose books for classes, and it ends the practice of bundling

Readers can modify content on the Web, so why not in books?

Northwestern University First to Deploy VidyoConferencing to its Academic Community for “Telepresence-Quality” Video Communications Over the Internet

Who exactly is the market leader in textbook rentals is no longer just an academic debate. Online textbook rental service Chegg recently sent its rival BookRenter.co a lawyer letter (embedded below) demanding that it stop using the phrase "#1 In Textbook Rentals" on its Website. That is Chegg's marketing slogan, and it even registered the phrase as a trademark in 2008.

In an interview with CNBC, McGraw-Hill's CEO confirms that their textbooks will be on the Apple Tablet and it will be an iPhone OS based machine.

JitterBook, which reinvented the way that students buy and sell textbooks, has introduced one more convenience to its program. Students can now trade in books and get paid on Parago's Visa® Prepaid Cards – furthering the convenience and ease that JitterBook offers students.

With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry—and expand Apple's influence and revenue as a content middleman.

A Silicon Valley venture capital firm has invested $8 million in Orbis Education, a locally based maker of nursing-education software. Founded in 2003, Orbis offers a system that helps universities and hospitals train new nurses. Last year, it had $4.5 million in revenue.

Pearson today edged up its forecast for full-year earnings and said it had seen signs of a long-awaited recovery at its three most recession-hit businesses. The 10 per cent rise in its expected earnings per share - before one-off items - from 61p to 63p per share, was helped by a combination of growing profits in its higher education text book, education software and testing business and the strength of the US dollar against sterling.