Monthly Archives: June 2012

USA Today published an article on “E-textbooks being a cheaper option” on June 19, explaining that students are hesitant about using e-readers to study for their courses and that they prefer the paper version. They highlight Bookboon.com as a good solution offering e-textbooks in PDF format that are printable and...

Campus Technology featured Bookboon’s Free digital textbooks funded through advertising. Click here to read the article. Free Digital Textbooks Funded Through Advertising By Dian Schaffhauser, 06/19/12 Bookboon.com, a company that makes its digital textbooks available free to college students, has taken the approach of funding its work by including advertising...

The website What’s New in Publishing published their interview of Bookboon’s COO, Thomas Buus Madsen. Interview: Thomas Buus Madsen, COO at Bookboon.com Tuesday, 19 June 2012 – 10:01am WNIP: Tell us a bit about Bookboon.com… Thomas Buus Madsen: Our main focus is free university textbooks for engineering, IT and business...

Here is an article published by the Guardian Higher Education Network on the 5 key features of a quality ebook. The five key features of a quality ebook Ebooks can make an important contribution to knowledge but quality remains an issue for the academic community. Sophie Tergeist lists five ways...

Bloomberg Businessweek published an article about Bookboon getting students through university. Read the article here. Free eTextbooks Increase Chances of Graduating College NEW YORK, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – For many students, it is a struggle to make ends meet while financing their studies. Soaring prices are putting required textbooks out...

Click here to read the full article introducing Bookboon and COO Thomas Buus Madsen. Rozhovor s Thomasem Buus Madsenem z Bookboon: O byznysu postaveném na e-knihách zdarma Thomas Buus Madsen je CEO dánského vydavatelství e-booků, Bookboon. To v posledních letech roste celoevropsky a snaží se rozvířit i globální trh. Zaměřuje...

Bookboon.com was featured on In 2 East Africa.net. See the full article here. Wed, Jun 6th, 2012 Free e-textbooks for all students in Rwanda By In2EastAfrica Staff For many students, it is a struggle to make ends meet while financing their studies. Expensive academic textbooks, which need to be bought...

inamibia.co.na featured Bookboon.com. See the entire article here. Free e-textbooks for all Namibian students Wednesday, 06 June 2012 Peter Mietzner | Published in:Local News For many students, it is a struggle to make ends meet while financing their studies. Expensive academic textbooks, which need to be bought every semester all...

Bookboon.com was featured on TechWire Asia. Read the entire article here BookBoon Offers 1,500 Free Academic E-Books in 7 Languages Posted by Goutama Bachtiar on June 6, 2012 in Applications, Gadgets & Gizmos With the aim of offering an alternative to high-priced e-books, book publishing house BookBoon is offering around...

Bookboon’s revolutionary concept was featured on the Ivory Coast news website Abidjan.net. Click here for the article. Littérature : L’éditeur de livres électroniques Bookboon.com met l’ordre établi à l’épreuve Publié le lundi 4 juin 2012   |  Ivoire-Presse © Abidjan.net par DR Rencontre internationale : La Côte d`ivoire fait bonne...