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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

Kitaboo on EdTech

For those who are newly exploring the digital market, keeping up with the trends which change rapidly is difficult. Here are some of the top trends that higher education textbook publishers must follow to increase their digital sales: 1. Switching over to digital publishing will also reduce the loss from unsold books.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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The sudden shift gave leaders at DreamBox Learning, a math education company headquartered nearby, an early glimpse at the upheaval to come and an inkling that digital teaching tools would soon be in high demand around the country. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

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higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. 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.

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In Move to ‘Unlimited’ Pricing Model, Cengage Hopes for a Comeback

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The company reemerged a year later intent on growing its digital offerings and making more strategic acquisitions and partnerships. I'm thinking you could sell a single book for $120 and now you're giving unlimited access for $120 total. These are students that are buying a used book from another student. No revenue for us.

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MissionU Says It Can Replace Traditional College With a One-Year Program

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A venture-backed company today announced a new educational offering billed as an alternative to the standard undergraduate experience. The company will hire working professionals to teach the courses. A roster of well-known companies—and darlings of Silicon Valley—have signed up to participate.

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To Save Its Campus Bookstore, This University Took It Online

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We know that college students’ tastes for digital services have the power to make companies snap to attention. It’s also integrated into the university’s payment system, allowing users to charge books to their student account. “If But what about campus bookstores, which are often tied more intimately to colleges? Kaji says. “It

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes include Harvard University’s Matthew Desmond for his book Evicted and the Salt Lake Tribune’s staff for its reporting on sexual assault at BYU. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total.