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Your New Best Friend for Cheap Textbooks
Thursday, 12 May 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Shopping for textbooks will still be painful for your wallet next year, but at least it will be easier. This fall, Blackboard will launch with a feature that lets you buy textbooks from Labyrinth online, at a 30% discount. Once you’ve registered for courses, you’ll be able to see the required and recommended books within
- Published in Goings On
Saving paper and wasting money, the Princeton way
Wednesday, 06 May 2009
by Will Saborio
TechRadar reported today on Princeton’s pilot project for cutting down on paper usage by using Kindle e-books for course readings. Looks like we were right in our predictions earlier this week, but mistaken about one thing: the hardware. The project plans to use the new Kindle DX, released by Amazon today. The awkwardly-titled “Toward Print-Less
- Published in Goings On, Musings, Princeton in the News
Free Kindles At Princeton?
Tuesday, 05 May 2009
by Angela Wu
You might not have to make your way to Labyrinth to pick up your 30 pounds of textbooks next semester. Princeton is joining the likes of Yale, Oxford and Berkeley in publishing its textbooks on Kindle, which weighs a hefty… 10.2 ounces. Meanwhile, Engadget has acquired leaks of the new Kindle, which has a larger
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News