I am looking to buy soft copies of Business text books. Does anybody here know where i can buy from. Soft copy would help me in studying without carrying bulky texts wherever i travel. Thanks in advance.
For about $100 a year. (Less than the cost of most textbooks), you can have access to Questia, an online library designed for students. They claim to have the world's largest online library. I had access to it once, and it was very cool. I'm thinking of subscribing again. www. questia.com They have a very cool demo and I think they will give you trial access.
You can try Direct Text Book's site: http://www.directtextbook.com You can search by ISBN, author, title, or keyword, and they nearly always specify format (paperback or hardcover) when you click on the resulting title. At the same time, their search engine will find the lowest price for you. (That is, the lowest price among the markets they search.) Kit
But directtextbook.com dont sell soft copies. The site directs me to different vendors. I am looking for a place i can but a softcopy (whole text book in a document or PDF or HTML). Please let me know if you come across a site/vendors who sells them. Thanks.
You'll find some McGraw Hill books available in e-formats at: http://ebooks.primisonline.com Prices are fairly reasonable. The e-format for one common international book costs $75 there, compared to $125+ new in hardcover. Used books, however, may be available for less. Some instructors - myself included - use the ebook approach and create our own texts that contain only the chapters we need. Regards - Andy
I apologise if I'm being obtuse but if weight is the only issue, why not simply rip off the covers? Jack
Wouldn't all e-books stored in the hard-drive of your laptop/notebook be a whole lot lighter if you're in travel?? I guess that was dl_mba's motivation. I kind of like the idea (even though I like my books to be in Hardcopy-hard-cover format more than that) but since weight is the issue, yes I too would wonder why publishers do not offer their books in e-format when they do so in hard-cover and soft-cover formats. It's not like books aren't compiled with typesetting software these days. LaTeX is one example... Also, what software do publishers use for designing the book layout and typesetting? It simply cannot be MS Word... its sucks so bad! Any input is highly welcome and appreciated!
advantages of e-format With textbooks you gotta order from amazon or other services and then you gotta wait for the darn shipping time to get your book (basic shipping is free, but what if you want your book in a hurry?). Also, since printing is on paper, that costs manufacturing and service overhead... not to mention the weight of the book itself. With e-format that manufaturing overhead, shipping lag and book's own weight is nullified...
Another option might be "Books 24/7" http://library.books24x7.com. They have a huge amount of business and IT books, and another one called Net Library. However I think with both these services your school's library must subscribe to them, and you can only access them through your library, so check with your university librarian.
Wow, here's a place that gives you over 60,000 ebooks for $8.00 year! http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html One specializing in economics and business books: ebrary http://shop.ebrary.com and a whole bunch of other eBook sites (either free or cheap): * Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts http:www.infomotions.com/alex/ * American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html * Berkeley Digital Library http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/ * British National Corpus http://thetis.bl.uk * eScholarship Editions, Univ. of California Press http://eScholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/ * EServer http://eserver.org/default.html * Electronic Literature Directory http://directory.eliterature.org/ * English Online Resources http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eng-on.html * Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/ * Internet Public Library Online Text Collection http://www.ipl.org/div/books/ * Library Electronic Text Resource Service http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/index.html * National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/ * On-Line Books Page http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ * Project Bartleby http://www.bartleby.com/ * Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ * Ted Nellen’s List of Books http://www.tnellen.com/school/books.html * Virtual Library of Virginia http://www.vivalib.org/collect/books.html * Antologia della Letteratura Italiana http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html * Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/ * Digital Scriptorium http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/ * Early English Books Online http://wwwlib.umi.com/eebo/search/basic * Humanities Text Initiative http://www.hti.umich.edu/ * Internet Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu/ * Library of Southern Literature http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/southlitmain.html * Luminarium http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/index.html * North American Women's Letters and Diaries http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDLive/index.html * Perseus Digital Library http://www.perseus.tufts.edu * Project Runeberg http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/ * Project Wittenberg http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html * UC Berkeley's Online Medieval and Classical Library http://sunsite.Berkeley.edu/OMACL/
Hi All Heriot-Watt/EBS MBA texts are in printed format (Pearson Education) and in both PDF/HTML electronic formats too. The latter is proving popular because MBA learners can carry the entire programme in their laptops and, with the online materials part, can work on their studies anywhere they can connect their laptops. However, we have not yet moved to dropping the hard copy textbooks as we are in a period of transition and the hard copy format is still popular. Because it is in ringbinder printed format (complete with slip case) it is heavy and bulky, it is possible to remove from it a small section, module or a few pages and carry them around. Until 2000 that was the only option. In some parts of the world we are moving towards full online delivery of the MBA, including the option to download the PDF or HTML text files and print your own book. We shall see how this works and perhaps in 2008 or so, spread this to the world student body. The advantage of online delivery, apart from portability, is that delivery can commence instantly the learner subscribes to the course. There are cost implications too that would help to keep prices for the MBA down. There will be no change in the exam regime, though, which is our distinctive feature among 2,500 other MBAs.
Page Maker (it's like Word on steroids), a few use proprietary or specially modified software, some use databases and just have updates added for new editions. Kit
Question for Dr. Kennedy! Dear Dr. Kennedy, I have been very interested in Heriot Watt's MBA for sometime. I had emailed your university in the past several weeks and also Pearson Education regarding online courseware, but I never got a response. I am interested in learning what is required to test out of particular subjects in your program. Also, I would like to know if it is possible to purchase the ebooks for download and where to go to do that if possible. If not, can you please email me the ISBN numbers of your required texts. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Robert Ray Hill [email protected] http://www.CivilAirPatrol.biz/Resume.pdf PS: The pdf I have attached has my mailing address to send literature directly to my home if that is possible. Have a Great Day and Thanks!
Hi Universities are large places and a general letter may take a long time to answer by going through various post boxes or persons unaware of where to locate the relevant section. I have no idea why Pearson has not replied but again, that depends where you tried to make contact. Apologies anyway. Try: www.ebsmba.com and pose your questions. I do not have a copy of my own EBS textbook, Negotiation, at home (I am using it at EBS at present writing future exams - we work two years ahead) to quote the ISBN. You can purchase any EBS MBA course, which as a single product, consists of the printed text for that course (choose from Economics, Organisational Behaviour, Accounting, Funance, Marketing, Project Management and Strategic Planning, and a host of Electives) plus the online materials and Profiler, past exams and solutions, faculty web board, the downloadable PDF/HTML files and Simulations. I believe the US dollar price is going up in February 2005. Incidentally, our electronic PDF and HTML files are a long way beyond Pagemaker and Word. They are the published book standard typeset, digistised versions of the real thing, delivered by Blackboard. The PDF is what you see on the printed page, design laid out and properly typeset, using SGML or XML. Any further problems, let me know: [email protected]
Adobe (who was the last to produce PageMaker) is discontinuong it. the replacement is called InDesign. Note both are primarily publishing layout programes, and not meant for word processing.
