Free Online Textbooks

The newly renovated NYU bookstore, located at 726 Broadway near Astor Place in New York City, offers numerous amenities and products to its customers. The New York University bookstore offers a variety of books for every academic discipline and class, as well as books for the general public,...

It makes perfect sense. Textbook exchanges between groups of students have been around as long as colleges have been around. All students need to do is to create a direct “marketplace” to buy and sell their textbooks directly between each other and cut out the middle-man, the middle man being the...

It is quite apparent that the entire textbook publishing model is beginning to make some much-needed changes. The traditional textbook publishing model is adapting in an attempt to become more compatible with the current digital learning technologies available. This is truly a major “revolution” of...

With more and more textbook companies popping up to serve the “online” marketplace, the competition is getting to be pretty darn fierce. One of the major benefits of this intense competition is the fact that it tends to force consumer prices down. This is great news for cash-strapped students. Low...

A very common question that potential buyers of tablet/e-reader devices have is, “What’s the best tablet to use for my textbooks?” It’s a daunting question too. Ebook reading devices like the iPad and Kindle are expensive, contain different technologies, and have their own limitations on certain...

Discovery Education (a division of Discovery Communications) is taking a big leap forward in the realm of digital textbooks. Say hello to Discovery Education’s “SCIENCE TECHBOOK”! This new digital textbook has a suite of AWESOME features for science students (and teachers) in elementary and...

Free online classes and course material available through the OpenCourseWare initiatives and other educational organizations and institutions are abundant. We have put together this page that condenses a majority of the most popular and FREE online college classes that students (and even teachers)...

There are a lot of exciting changes taking place with the Blackboard Learn platform. Blackboard Inc., which provides online educational and classroom tools for teachers and students at all levels around the country, is beginning to establish new partnerships with companies such as Macmillan and...

Google Apps for Education is a free suite of tools designed to streamline and enhance the educational experiences of students and instructors. Google Apps for Education includes six core products: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Video; and many others can...

For centuries, the idea of higher education has conjured images of diligent scholars poring over dusty tomes of Latin and Greek; over the past few decades, through the power of global connectivity, education has evolved into something as fast-paced, urgent and direct as the outside world itself....

I’ve discussed on here before about the HUGE need for digital learning training programs that are catered to school administrations specifically. Current trends are suggesting that students of all ages are seeing the value in using eTextbooks and other digital learning materials both on and...

Anyone that has gone through higher education at some larger public universities has probably encountered a professor or two that has written their own textbook. The problem that most people have with this is that they believe it could present a conflict of interest, as the teacher receivesÂ...

There are many textbooks that help detail the art of public speaking. However, one that stands heads and shoulders above the others is “The Art of Public Speaking” by Stephen E. Lucas. This University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and author has created a simple to read book that covers many...

If you happen to be a business or law student at a university, or perhaps just enjoy learning about business and business law, then you’ve probably read (or at least heard of) the book “Business Law: Text and Cases – Legal, Ethical, Global, and Corporate Environment”, By Kenneth W. Clarkson,...

For more than a decade, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, has been a standard text about object-oriented development. Although Design Patterns was published in 1994 by Addison-Wesley Professional, it continues to be the most popular text in the categories of...

Mike Markel’s “Technical Communication” is one of the most popular technical communication textbooks available. It received four stars on Amazon.com and four on the Barnes and Noble website. There are several aspects of the book that have helped turn it into a successful guide to technical...

“The Art of Electronics” is a textbook written by Paul Horowitz, a Harvard educator on electronics and physics and Winfield Hill, the Director of Electronics Engineering Laboratory at Harvard University. This book has become one of the most popular of all texts on electronic engineering. It has...

A standard text for students in the healthcare, nursing and biology fields, Understanding Nutrition provides a comprehensive look into the role that food and supplements play in the efficient operation of the human body. Written by Eleanor Noss Whitney and Sharon Rady Rolfes and published by...

While every person the world over enjoys some type of music, appreciating the art is a much different task. With all the different styles and genres available today, it can be difficult to understand the appeal of certain flavors of music. Roger and Anita Kamien’s Music Appreciation textbook gives...

A significant percentage of major textbook publishers are now offering textbook companion websites to go along with the reading material in their textbooks. Taking a cue from digital learning and online education programs, these textbook companion websites offer interactive resources that a...