U.S. company to offer digital textbooks on iPhone
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. digital course materials supplier CourseSmart announced on Tuesday that it is making its more than 7,000 college "e Textbooks" available on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
With a free application on Apple's online App Store, students in the United States and Canada can buy their textbooks in electronic form at about half the price of print versions. They can also use iPhone or iPod Touch to quickly reference their e-textbooks in the classroom and even browse their notes, the company said.
"We've seen significant demand from student customers for the ability to get required textbook content in electronic form on an iPhone or iPod Touch," Frank Lyman, executive vice president of CourseSmart, said in a statement.
With the new free application, students can benefit from the advantages of mobile learning, "leaving their backpack and laptop behind," CourseSmart said in an introduction to its program.
According to CourseSmart, college students on nearly 6,000 campuses in the United States and Canada are using its electronic textbooks, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.