Physics textbooks have long relied on static diagrams to explain dynamic phenomena, leaving students to imagine how concepts like motion or energy unfold in real life. However, a new tool called ...

Last spring I wrote about Nature Publishing Group’s plan for a $49 electronic textbook packed with interactivity and unlimited content updates for life. The original publication date was scheduled for ...

A recent article from IntuIdeas, “Clickable Paper Book, Introduction to Graphic Communication, Reaches Adoption Milestone,” describes how an interactive printed textbook became a “best seller” for ...

A trio of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has created the first-ever fully interactive advanced organic chemistry textbook, called "The Portable Chemist’s Consultant: A Survival Guide ...

Mary Kay helps BYU student Sean Havas buy a textbook in the BYU Bookstore. RedShelf is trying to create a more interactive experience for students purchasing digital textbooks. The BYU Store and ...

We recently wrote about a startup that develops an innovative digital textbook platform, Inkling, which raised funding from Sequoia, Aydin Senkut, and other investors and scored a number of deals with ...

As an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry and biochemistry, I spent a lot of money on science textbooks. When classes ended, I kept all of my books instead of selling them back for pennies on ...

Continuing to add content from a growing list of textbook publishers, Kno, an educational software developer that creates digital textbooks for the iPad, reached an agreement to produce interactive ...

With just an iPad, students in any classroom across the world could soon reimagine the ordinary diagrams in any physics textbook—transforming these static images into 3D simulations that run, leap or ...