Archive for April, 2010

We are pleased to announce that CourseSmart’s “eTextbooks for the iPad” is now live on the iTunes store and available for download to the iPad. We are excited about this application because it means every college student in North America can buy one or more of their textbooks as CourseSmart eTextbooks and access them on an iPad.

The process is simple for students.

• They begin by coming to www.coursesmart.com and searching for their assigned textbook. CourseSmart has more than 10,000 of the most widely adopted textbooks on campus, covering most of the market.
• Once they find their assigned textbook as an eTextbook, students can purchase a subscription to the title either as an online eTextbook (your textbook in the cloud) or a downloadable one. Students with an online eTextbook subscription can access their eTextbooks on the iPad through the Safari browser even without the iPad application.
• Once a student has an existing subscription at CourseSmart (which he or she can access on netbooks, laptops, or other computers in addition to iPhones/iPods/iPads) they can download the eTextbooks for the iPad app and access these same subscriptions on their iPad.

Now that our initial application is live, the team at CourseSmart is working hard to develop a “2.0” version of the application to launch this summer. We are excited about the opportunity to better leverage the iPad environment and talk to our customers about what they would like to see in our future applications.