Hi everyone, I'm doing this research for a friend that is moving to Central America for work. I looked for old threads but could not find the information. My friend wants to do a masters degree in either humanities, English, history or liberal arts. Here is where it gets tricky, the program has to have ebooks as supposed to regular textbooks. The reason why she wants ebooks is because ordering textbooks from the US to Nicaragua would take ages to get there, and she has not find a reliable source for textbooks there. As far as price is concerned the program should be in the 20-30K range, her employer is footing 90% of the bill. Thanks for the help. :headbang:
Most of the major textbook manufacuturers offer an eBook option directly on their sites if you purchase directly from them. This is a more expensive option, but becoming widely available. You can also get the eBooks online from B&N, Google Books, Amazon, etc. Faculty at APUS were recently directed to change books in our courses to ones with an eBook option. APUS even went so far as to stipulate that they could cost no more than $35 and then aggressively negotiated with the manufacturers to provice books at that price point. Many people returning to school are under the incorrect impression that books need to be purchased through the university bookstore - all you need is the ISBN and you can get them through other sources.
Impressive! This is very student focus. Excellent for APUS. My present university seems to do exactly the opposite
With a little bit of searching around many text books can be "discovered" on the internet for free. There are also some sort of Russian book repositories (bookfi) which have a wide range of digitalized books available. If these gray channels are to risky for you there is also the legal option of just using 1DollarScan - Book Scanning Service. I just love the option of doing full content searches on books and therefore go through whatever means necessary to avoid having to use paper editions. Sometimes this even means spending an hour at the book scanner in my local library just to digitalized a difficult-to-get book myself.
Even from a legal standpoint it's not stealing, it's infringement of copyright. And that assumes one accepts the legitimacy of copyright in the first place, which as you can see, not everyone does: [video=youtube;IeTybKL1pM4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4[/video]
If you're going to get e-books, I'd recommend Barnes & Noble's nook books over Amazon's Kindle. Nook books have page numbers; Kindle does not.
That's because the Kindle dynamically re-formats the content for optimal display (Portrait or Landscape). The maximum amount of text it can fit on one page at the desired font size is how it works. Therefore the concept of pages does not apply, it uses "position". If you rotate the Kindle, more or less text will appear.