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So those who sell textbooks like to charge higher prices to Americans than to other people.

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One is to celebrate the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) like the onset of the textbooks coupled with public libraries.

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When combined with the free online textbooks at sites like Textbook Revolution and TextBooksFree, plus other course books from Google Books, World Public Library, and Project Guttenberg, M.

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They sell new and used textbooks and offer incentives like deep discounts, free shipping, rental programs and searchable course lists for selected major colleges and universities.

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Research conducted by Purdue University and published in the journal Science have proven that students remember science topics longer through actively recalling information than through textbooks or other exercises like concept maps.

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To launch one of these textbooks you simply go into iBooks like normal, select the title you want with a tap and then wait a few moments.

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"Peers reviewed my ideas and didn't like them because they weren't in the textbooks, " he says.

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New Amazon-exclusive features like X-Ray for Movies, X-Ray for Textbooks, Immersion Reading, Whispersync for Voice and Whispersync for Games.

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