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Watermelon Express now BenchPrep, publishing academic prep texts to iPad

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 1st, 2011)

Educational app maker Watermelon Express has shifted gears and entered the electronic textbook market. The Chicago-based company, now known as BenchPrep, has over 75 educational apps in the App Store, most of which were interactive textbooks and test prep materials made for larger, more ...

Barnes & Noble releases NOOKstudy for e-Textbooks

by Mike Schramm (Aug 5th, 2010)

As promised, Barnes & Noble has released their NOOKstudy app for both Windows and OS X computers -- you can get the app for free on their webpage now, and then use it to download textbooks for school this fall (either buying them at a discount compared to the real paper copies, or just checking ...

Barnes & Noble's NOOKstudy coming to students in August

by David Winograd (Jul 22nd, 2010)

Barnes & Noble is diving deeper into the education market with an expected August release of NOOKstudy which will run on Macs and PCs and not require a NOOK or any other mobile device. NOOKstudy will act as a hub for eTextbook, class notes, syllabi, scanned handouts, and even non-educational ...

CourseSmart brings textbooks to an iPhone near you

by Casey Johnston (Aug 14th, 2009)

The electronic textbooks pandemic, er, market, continues to spread its influence to handheld gadgets: PC World reports that CourseSmart, an e-textbook publisher, has created an iPhone application, eTextbooks for the iPhone [iTunes link], to make its entire 7,000+ title catalog available on your ...