In a move that will combine two privately held firms that specialize in creating custom course materials for higher education, XanEdu and SharedBook, which includes AcademicPub, its self-service coursepack division, will merge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Total book sales fell 2.5% in 2011, to $27.2 billion, according to the latest figures released by BookStats. Revenue was down in three of the four major segments measured by BookStats—k–12, higher education, and professional/scholarly—and up slightly in trade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite efforts to digitize the classic textbook, higher education is moving beyond e-texts toward the integration of giant educational publishing platforms with university networks to create a one-stop interactive educational environment that supplies almost everything a student needs. While... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
A “high-profile defeat” for publishers is how Brandon Butler, director of public policy initiatives at the Association of Research Libraries, described the May 11 verdict in Cambridge University Press et. al. v. Mark Becker et. al., a closely watched copyright case involving the use of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]