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Elsevier Faces Tough Questions About Its Business Model During Library and Publishing Conference

Edsurge

And Elsevier, the for-profit scholarly communications giant that many librarians and researchers love to hate, will never go away. The daylong program kicked off with a riveting one-on-one conversation between Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA’s president, and Youngsuk “YS” Chi, the chairman of Elsevier. But we are profitable.”

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?Major Publishers Dismiss Lawsuit Against Follett Corporation

Edsurge

Follett Corporation, a textbook distribution company, announced this week that it has agreed to adopt a set of “ Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices ,” a list of guidelines co-developed and endorsed by four major textbook publishers. Ingram Book Group, MBS Textbook Exchange and Valore.

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Futuring open education at the University of Mary Washington OER Summit

Bryan Alexander

Another: individual faculty are often caught between publishers (so far, everyone here hates sales reps) and their tenure/hiring/promotion/review companies (strong sense of long-serving profs as obstacles). Baby boomer faculty shared stories of the staggeringly cheap prices for their books, to the groans of younger folk.

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How a Partnership Over Annotation Software Fits Into Bigger Changes in Research Workflow

Edsurge

Elsevier, one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific journals, hasn’t been shy about shifting away from just publishing to offering a set of tools for scholars to use throughout the research process. Higher education leaders have been watching Elsevier’s overall strategy with caution—and some concern.

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Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides.

Edsurge

For instance, Union County College, in New Jersey, recently forged a deal with Cengage to give the campus a steep discount on the company’s Cengage Unlimited subscription if they buy in bulk. College leaders stress that professors retain as much academic freedom as ever to choose which books to assign. It was a horrible experience.”

Pearson 94
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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.

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Cultural hegemony and disruption

Learning with 'e's

It is now the first port of call for many, supplanting Britannica and other previously popular reference books. Other commercial companies are also falling foul of disruptive technology. In an extraordinarily short period of time, Wikipedia has taken up pole position as the world's knowledge repository.