Publishing houses stay outside e-textbook market
Also in 2012, FPT, a well-known technology group, said it was running a series of programs on digitalizing textbooks. It also said it was conducting the negotiations with the units holding the textbooks' copyright. The promise by the big guys in the …
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Staying up-to-date while cutting back your technology bill
… they spend on downloading apps, downloading music, books and even renting video games. Debbie Gardner, with the Oklahoma Society of CPAs, stopped by our studios with a few smart ways to cut out what you don't need and still get your technology fix.
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Today's CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer
In the early 1990s, Barnes & Noble superstores changed how we shop for books. By the mid-1990s, Amazon was transforming how we shop for books, which then transformed how we shop for everything. As we all know, technology made this transformation …
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Writers Read: Poet of politics and Polynesia at Albany
Sullivan (of Ngāpuhi and Galway Irish descent) is head of the Creative Writing School at Manukau Institute of Technology, following his return from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where he was an associate professor of English and director of the …
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Amazon, Overstock Print-Book Price War Could Cut eBook Costs
It all started last week when Overstock promised customers that it would beat Amazon's prices on print books by 10 percent, based on the prices advertised on Amazon on July 22. In response, Amazon apparently dropped many prices by 10 percent.
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