7,000 Textbooks in Your Pocket: Thanks CourseSmart!
Wired Educator’s An iPod in Every Classroom Initiative just got a big boost today with news that CourseSmart will offer over 7,000 textbooks to iPhone and iPod Touch owners via a free application called eTextbooks for the iPhone (with subscription to CourseSmart).
CourseSmart is already being used by college students at over 6, 000 universities via any computer and an internet connection. Now with the new iPod Touch/iPhone app true mobility is possible. Students will have access to their textbooks and notes anywhere they go.
CourseSmart claims to save students over $58 off the average cost of the original textbook from over 12 different publishers and add the benefits of digital books like keyword searches, mobility, thumbnail and full page views.
Boasting 7,066 textbooks, in 935 course areas, in 113 disciplines from 12 major publishers, makes CourseSmart the leader in eTextbooks. You can go to their website and see if the text book you need is available using their search window. All you need is either a course name, author, title, keyword, or ISBN.
The only downside I can find is that their is obviously no resale of the books and the books you download typically expired in 180 days. (I am sure some young college programmer is working hard on a workaround for the latter as I type.)
The excuse, “I didn’t have my book with me,” could soon be lost forever.
Watch out Kindle!
Awesome stuff, this is something I should check out. I could get used to having thousands of books on my handheld device
Helen Hunt
August 10, 2009 at 11:14 pm
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