Showing posts with label textbooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textbooks. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2020

Digitial First Textbooks - My Interview with CCC's Beyond the Book

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As print textbooks eventually do give way to courseware, industry analyst Michael Cairns says, college professors, administrators and s...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Textbook Class Action Case versus Publishers and Booksellers

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A six person Chicago law firm which engages in class action and personal injury cases has taken on the education publishing industry over t...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Exclusive Access Comes to Campus: Interview with UC Davis Store Management

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U.C. Davis has seen textbook sales to students fall from more than $16mm per year in 2008 to less than $6MM in 2018. While some of th...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

The Auto Textbook Algorithm

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There are many dire predictions that have all human workers being replaced by machines in the not too distant future, so this article from...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Cengage Revenue Off 22% - Analysts Nervous

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Describing a 22% revenue decrease as a "self-inflicted wound" and the result of a single customer reducing their purchases will re...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

NACS Study: A Comprehensive Analysis on Textbooks and Course Materials, 2012

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An annual study from the National Association of College Stores on student attitudes and perceptions. Highlights outlined in their press r...
Monday, July 02, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 27): Julian Barnes, eTextbooks Anyone? Inheriting eBooks + More

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Julian Barnes writing in the Guardian about his life as a bibliofile: By now, I was beginning to view books as more than just utilitari...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 23): Amazon, Achilles, Ulysses +More

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In a heavily retweeted article, The Nation takes a look at The Amazon Effect .  In the process, the author seems to rely a lot on what J...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

BISG's Student Attitudes to Content in Higher Ed

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The BISG has released the second installment of their report on student attitudes Now available to purchase (and at significant discounts ...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 21): Internet Commons, Mass 'Professoriat", IP Markets, New ASCAP/BMI Model + More

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In The Atlantic, Bill Davidow wonders whether like the sea, the internet will be 'over fished' ( The Atlantic) Free markets are th...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, N 20): Georgia State Opinion Round-Up

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For those interested in how discussions are setting up around the Georgia State eReserves Case: Kevin Smith at Duke (perhaps the first to ...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Georgia On My Mind: Fair Use, Digital Availability & Reasonable Pricing

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In April 2008, three publishers Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Sage, filed suit against Georgia State University...
Monday, May 07, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 19): HuffPo's Aggregation Model, Espresso Books, FT on the state of Publishing +More

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From the Columbia Journalism Review a long review of how Huff Po came to define the news aggregation 'business' ( CJR ) Before its...
Monday, April 16, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 16): Texas Custom, Apps For Education, William Boyd, Official Chinese Authors, + More

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Tarrant county (Texas) attempts to save students money on textbooks runs into faculty resistance ( IHEd ): The push for cheaper textbooks ...