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How Merger of Two Textbook Giants Could Impact Course Materials

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The announced merger this week between two of the world’s largest textbook publishers—McGraw-Hill and Cengage—could mean more students end up buying subscriptions to digital courseware libraries each semester, rather than making a trip to a bookstore. That’s the way Cengage created its subscription product, says Hansen.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

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billion, according to the Software & Industry Information Association. In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books. The industry has been proven wrong so many times. From 2011 to 2014, U.S. billion to $3.3

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Gig’s Up: CreatorUp Raises $1 Million to Train and Match Creative Professionals for Work

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The company also offers an online library of self-paced courses that individuals can access for $25 per month or $200 a year. A sizable portion of CreatorUp’s clients come from the education industry, including Cengage and Chegg, as well as community colleges and universities.

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Reach Capital’s Newest Education Technology Investment Fund Closes at $82 Million

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based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. Returning backers include what Garvey calls “strategics,” the industry parlance for organizations that operate in the same sector. WriteLab (Chegg). To date, Reach Capital has invested roughly $40 million in 42 startups.

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?Major Textbook Publishers Sue Follett Over Counterfeit Sales

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Follett believes [the best practices] would effectively restrict access to low-cost used and rental course materials on campus,” the statement reads. Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc. Ray Griffin, CEO of Follet, says his company has been working to find and remove counterfeit materials from its library.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

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Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. Cengage recently introduced a new subscription model that gives students access to all of the company’s digital course materials for a semester or an year. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?” ” The Business of Student Loans.