Frank Lowney Archives - Book Business

June 6, 2015Our anti-spam Dobes: Please e-mail us if they delete your valuable comments

Is LSD in the virtual dog food of our anti-spam Dobermans—well, actually the Akismet service? The Dobes have killed valuable comments from veteran TeleRead community members such as Frank Lowney and Michael W. Perry. Anyone know of some Dobe trainers out there? We’ll investigate the possibility of white-listing. This is an old problem. It was […]

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March 11, 2013For more free textbooks, look at iTunes U

By Dr. Frank Lowney This past weekend, Dr. Frank Lowney, an occasional TeleRead contributor, brought to our attention an online archive of free, Creative Commons licensed university textbooks known as the Flatworld Knowledge Book Archive. We heard from Dr. Lowney again yesterday; he told us that “another, larger source of free e-textbooks can actually be found [...]

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March 9, 2013A legitimate archive of free textbooks

I received an email earlier this week from Dr. Frank Lowney, an occasional TeleRead contributor, and the author of The Coming ePublishing Revolution in Higher Education. Dr. Lowney, who is currently involved with the Georgia State College & University, most definitely knows his stuff when it comes to college textbooks, and higher education in general. That’s [...]

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February 27, 2013What’s Happening to College Bookstores?

By Dr. Frank Lowney I recently traveled to Kansas City, Mo., to attend the annual convention put on by the National Association of College Stores (NACS), and to participate in a panel discussion on the impact of emerging technologies upon the textbook business. NACS represents about half of all college stores. The other half are [...]

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