Today's university libraries might be filled with rows of books, but the library of the future will carry more of a digital load and not so much paper weight. A recent survey of 500 college students ...

Print textbooks are the eternal punching bag for the things people think technology should render obsolete. Technologists from Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, almost a century apart, have predicted ...

"I've always loved reading, I grew up just surrounded by books," says Amy Soma. Soma loved books so much, she grew up to become Fargo Public Schools' Library Program Coordinator. "Part of it is in my ...

Every year in Shaun Banks’ class, her 4th graders write a biography about a philanthropist who has benefited their community. Banks, who teaches in Chicago Public Schools, asks her students to use ...

The print-format scholarly book, a bulwark of academia’s publish-or-perish culture, is an endangered species. The market that has sustained it over the years is collapsing. Sales of scholarly books in ...

America’s schools are facing a crisis in reading achievement. The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that only 31 percent of 4th graders and 30 percent of 8th ...

The results of their study into "consumer interpretations of digital ownership in the book market," published in Electronic Markets last month, make clear what many in the publishing industry have ...

Children who read printed books demonstrate better comprehension and concentration, while screens are associated with lower ...

You must have noticed blank pages in both paperback and hardcover books. But have wondered what is the purpose of these blank pages? On top of that, why don’t ebooks have blank pages like that? Well, ...

From an early age, children are diving into the vibrant world of digital media, sparking a critical conversation about its impact on literacy. While the undeniable advantages of print books can enrich ...