enTourage partners with Cengage Learning, O'Reilly, and the University of Chicago Press

By on Jul 21, 2010 at 11:59 PM
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enTourage announced three major deals with publishers that will bring thousands of new book titles to its dual-screen eDGe ereader. Targeting the higher education market, the trio includes Cengage Learning which publishes a wide variety of educational content under brands such as Delmar, Heinle, and more, O’Reilly which offers over 1,ooo titles in technology and programming, and the University of Chicago Press which has over 1000 academic titles in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. With these agreements, enTourage is making a play for the academic market and is hoping to succeed where Amazon and its Kindle DX failed. Anyone on the way to college interested in this electronic reading and note taking system?

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  • sikkboy

    Does the ipad do higher education textbooks?

  • http://halo3.com p.mcgee

    i wIsH tHeY wOUlD puT TWo IpADs ToGetHEr lIke ThaT LoloLOlOLolOLolOl w00t w00t :-0

    • Levih

      St0p TaLkInG LiKe DiS iT iS aNn0yInG.

      Seriously, just stop. It makes you look like a dumbass.

    • jjlo

      Just plain juvenile

    • jjlo

      Just plain juvenile

    • jjlo

      Just plain juvenile

    • Mous

      what a moron…it’s actually sad. I wonder if he talks like that all the time “hey ma, what’s for dinner?” “your favorite, porkchops!” “w00t w00t, LOL”

  • DaHarder

    Interesting… I hope it finds its niche.

  • HTZ

    Agree with Levih stop that ish

    Dint the iPad murder this thing already? It’s too think and heavier compared tooth iPad! IPad ftw!!!

  • RBaile

    i think it needs much more text book titles to become a true replacement for them. nobody is going to buy this thing if only a couple of the books they need being offered on it. Also when you buy books you can sell them back and cut your loses, but when you buy a digital copy you don’t get any money back. Good thought but until almost ever text book has a digital version i don’t think its going to become a necessity for college.

  • Richard

    Wow !
    It looks good….I hope it will be finds shop soon.

  • http://splashbanana.wordpress.com Shinx2ran

    all we need is a gadget that can work on all aspects.. not this

  • getnthe411

    This is not good news for the university book stores. A win for students if the price of a digital copy is at least 60% cheaper than a hard copy book. For publishers this cuts out the middleman. So naturally prices should go down. We shall see. I’m also seeing future law suits for e-reader/ ipad manufacturers with people having eye strain issues.

  • Johnny

    That looks like a portable DVD player from 1997… I think I’d rather carry stacks of books.

  • Johnny

    BTW to add, I think the reason why no eReader can penetrate the textbook market is because of the cash cow it serves to publishers who freely make small edits to their textbooks every school year (even semester) just to move up an edition and cause more required buying. I think they’re well aware that they won’t be able to charge $120 a semester on an eReader, and even if they attempted it students will figure out ways to extract the ebooks and pass them around.

  • Enlightened

    This actually looks pretty promising. The ability to write notes within the actual textbook during a lecture without having to carry the whole thing with you is HUGE. As far as selling books back, a lot of you people don’t understand that if a new edition of a book becomes available, your old edition is close to worthless anyway. If they price titles appropriately (maybe along the lines of a used book, which is still VERY expensive) this could really take off. If I was back in college or grad school this would really excite me.

  • Kris

    Seems very nice and I wanted to purchase one until I plugged in some ISBNs from my upcoming courses and found the e- textbooks costing almost the same ($5-$10 and some cases none) in pdf forrmat as the actual textbook. So not only would I be paying for the e-reader I’d be paying for a full fledged text-book in pdf format!

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