Japan is joining the shift to electronic textbooks, approving digital technology-based materials as official school textbooks ...

The textbooks can toggle between languages so students who aren't native speakers can check their understanding. Another advantage: the digital books' cost. Discovery's lessons — branded 'Techbooks' ...

Textbooks are the bane of every college kid’s existence: They’re expensive, heavy, half the time you end up using them once, your professors’ insist on going off book, and when all’s said and done and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their textbooks. Welcome to the new ...

In South Korea, the days of students lumbering around with backpacks full of books could soon be a thing of the past. A new government initiative aims to replace all physical textbooks with eBooks ...

In short, an e-reader is best suited for reading books with minimal annotation or note-taking. An e-ink notepad is best for ...