| What do you hate about textbooks? |
| 06/12/2007 |
Steve Gimbel, from Philsopher's playground has been writing a textbook on "a philosophy of science". He is asking readers to help him answer the question..
So what is it about textbooks that you really hate and what examples can you think of that made a textbook successful? What should I avoid and what should I try to include?
Chime in or find out what people hate about textbooks
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| | Previous Entries | | | Site Update: Price Comparison XML API Available! |
| 06/11/2007 |
We've worked hard to find a way to make our results available to extend our service in ways we never thought of. So we are happy to announce the immediate availability of our Price Comparison XML API.
The results are the same results from our own site, in a very simple XML format. The REST interface accepts a developer key, and either a book's ISBN or EAN, and that's it! The output is easy as well, with both book information and price inofrmation returned.
We hope to see some innovative and inventive uses of our API in the coming weeks, we'll see how it goes.
To receive a developer key, simply contact us and describe your idea briefly to us.
To see more information and an example of the output, see here.
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| | | Site Updates: Bulk order search and ebook search |
| 06/08/2007 |
ebook Search: Focused search that only returns books available in an electronic format including, Audio,CD, DVD, PDF and other popular ebook formats.
Bulk Book Order Search: If you need multiple copies of the same book this search looks for booksellers who can fulfill orders of the same title in quantities of 2-25 . This is especially handy if you bulk order textbooks. By buying from one vendor you can save lots of money on shipping.
Both of these searches, like our whole site are ever evolving and improving. Please let us know any additions/improvements we can add to make your book finding life easier. Contact us |
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| | | Publication cost comparison: Chemistry Textbook vs Thoreau's Walden |
| 06/08/2007 |
Doug Tygar is a professor of Computer Science and Information Management at AC Berkeley, posts this Publication cost comparison sheet being distributed by Prentice-Hall.
The sheet compares the publication cost of two books, an unidentified Chemistry book and Thoreau's: Walden.
The number of free samples produced was impressive. In this example Prentice-Hall.
provides the production costs for a 30,000 copy run. For each 30,000 books produced they have an estimated 6500 free samples. That is a healthy chunk of change going to providing something to professors for free. Of course these costs are inevitably passed on to the student while often the professor sells the desk copy back and makes money.
Publication cost comparison Prentice-Hall |
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| | | Questions you shouldn't ask your professor |
| 06/07/2007 |
Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, provides these Top Ten No Sympathy Lines (Plus a Few Extra) which is a list of his answers to common student questions.
A good one from the list...
Do I Need to Know This?
You can survive without the things you learn in college. People survive scrounging out of dumpsters and sleeping in doorways. If you want to talk about quality of life, we need to be a bit more demanding.
Top Ten No Sympathy Lines (Plus a Few Extra)
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