education

Wednesday Midday Links RoundUp: Big Changes at Simon & Schuster

I woke up and Twitter was alive with the news that Simon & Schuster was making a huge change to its organizational structure. Simon Spotlight Entertainment and Pocket Books will be reconfigured. All the hardcovers and trade books that were once Pocket Books or SSE will now be Gallery Books. Pocket Books will focus solely(…)

Arnold Schwarzenegger Forces California to Go E

California is having a terrible budget crisis.   One of the ways Governor Schwarzenegger is attempting to reduce educational will be to eliminate purchase of print textbooks and require the use of electronic textbooks. The pilot program will be launched next August.   High school students will be provided an ebook reader to access the math and(…)

Weekly Tech Links: Education Edition

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that while e textbooks are welcome by colleges and universities the hardware devices are not meeting the students’ needs for tables, illustrations, ease of use.    The Kindle Dx, an education aimed device, is selling out.   According to Teleread.org, there is now a delay in shipping of the Kindle.(…)