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Pearson Announces Custom Textbook Service – Project Blue Sky

Similar to 20MM Mix, major textbook publisher Pearson has announced to provide a service that will allow instructors to create custom etextbooks with open access content and Pearson material. As a...

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Flatworld Knowledge Will Revoke Free Access to Textbooks in 2013

Flatworld Knowledge has decided to end their free online textbook business model in January 2013. Originally, they offered students free access to textbooks and made money by selling digital study...

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Bookboon Comments About Flat World Knowledge and the Free Textbook Model

Bookboon.com has commented on Flat World Knowledge’s abandonment of the free etextbook business model, explaining to their users that they will not be forced to do the same. According to Bookboon, Flat...

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International Used Textbooks May Become Illegal

It all began with Supap Kirtsaeng, a student from Thailand attending an American college, who noticed that the textbooks he used in class were sold cheaper in his homeland. He asked his family if they...

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The Rise of Textbook Prices Compared to Other Goods and Services

Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics at the The University of Michigan Flint Campus, has written an article for the American Enterprise Institute emphasizing the rising costs of textbooks. For the...

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20MM Partners with Chegg to Sell Previously Free Textbooks for Small Fee

The Twenty Million Minds Foundation (20MM) has spent about $1.5-million in developing open access textbooks written by high-profile scholars, but they are learning that professors are still hesitant to...

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Technology Allows Students More Freedom When Buying Textbooks

The two most important factors that are reshaping the textbook market are economics and technology. The expensive price tag on textbooks is motivating students to find alternatives on the internet or...

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White House Announces New Policy to Make Federally Financed Research Open Access

John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, issued a memorandum on February 22nd calling for federally funded research to be made publicly available within a...

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Digital Public Library of America Will Debut in April

Next month, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is scheduled to make its public debut. During a two-day event from April 18-19th, the DPLA will be unveiled at the Boston Public Library. Daniel...

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Boundless Still Being Sued by Publishers After Rewriting Textbooks

Last year, a free-textbook company called Boundless was sued by three major textbook publishers. Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education filed a joint complaint in March 2012 against...

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Supreme Court Supports Student in Textbook Copyright Lawsuit

On March 19th, the Supreme Court ruled on the case of Kirtsaeng vs. John Wiley & Sons. In a 6-3 decision in favor of Supap Kirtsaeng, they ruled that textbooks and other goods manufactured and sold...

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American Anthropological Association Begins to Experiment with Open Access

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced that it will begin to experiment with open access publishing for its journals. Currently, AAA publishes more than 20 journals and...

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Wiley Announces Partnership With OpenStax

Wiley has recently announced that it will partner with OpenStax College, a non-profit organization which produces introductory level open access college textbooks. Normally, Wiley would be a competitor...

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Internet2/Educause Etextbook Pilot Expands to Include 50 Publishers in Fall 2013

One of the largest etextbook pilot programs to date has been announced for fall 2013. The pilot will include 50 publishers and about 30,000 textbooks. It is a continuation of the etextbook pilot...

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Open Course Library Announces the Completion of Remaining 39 Textbooks

Open Course Library (OCL), a project funded by the Washington Legislature and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create open access textbooks for the 81 most common community college courses,...

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OpenStax College to Expand Catalog of Open Access Textbooks

OpenStax College, a publisher from Rice University, has announced to expand its catalog of open access textbooks by 2015. The expansion will be funded by a grant from the Laura and John Arnold...

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edX Partners with 15 More Universities and on Track for Financial Sustainability

edX, a non-profit Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) provider founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, has recently announced that fifteen more universities have...

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The GOA Released a New Report Regarding Textbook Affordability

The United States Government Accountability Office (GOA) recently released a new report, mandated by the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA), which examines the efforts publishers have made to...

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The Growing Shift from Print to Digital

The multi-billion dollar textbook industry is being disrupted by various forces, including publishers, tech start-ups, education non-profits, the government, and university professors. One of the major...

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Publisher Files for Bankruptcy as Textbook Market Continues to Shrink

One of the largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning Inc., has recently filed for bankruptcy protection to seek help under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code for about $5.8-billion in outstanding...

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