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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

Kitaboo on EdTech

Big names in the publishing industry like Cengage and Pearsons have already moved to digital publishing and have built their loyal customer base. For those who are newly exploring the digital market, keeping up with the trends which change rapidly is difficult. Switch to Digital Publishing: There’s no escaping the digital revolution.

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Earnings Roundup: How Public Edtech Companies Fared Following the Outbreak

Edsurge

Chegg The bottom line: Chegg’s first quarter delighted investors. Fueling that growth is Chegg Services, which brought in just over $100 million in revenue last quarter, a 33 percent increase over Q1 2019. As such, it is difficult to predict how much, if any, of Chegg's first half momentum will continue.”

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Byju’s Becomes an Edtech ‘Decacorn’ After Fundraise from Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital

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Bond was founded by Mary Meeker, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins whose annual “Internet Trends” reports have become a must-read for the technology industry. Over the years, Byju’s has acquired several assets to shore up its offerings, including Edurite and TutorVista, from Pearson in 2017. They’re supplementing it,” says Brothers.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

Edsurge

Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. For Pearson, non-digital revenues still dominate at 38 percent, down from 41 percent the year prior.

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

Edsurge

I think Pearson has seen it. Tell me a little bit about some of your recent partnerships with companies such as Chegg. Chegg provides, amongst other things, tutoring services. I think Chegg is doing well in that. It's not unlimited choice in the sense we don't have Pearson materials.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. The private student loan company has raised $50 million total, but I’m told “fintech” doesn’t “count” as ed-tech so let’s just ignore this trend, right? No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“​ Pearson to Lay Off 3,000 More Employees,” says Edsurge. I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. Via The New York Times : “A Few Telling Freshman Trends.” ISTE has hired Joseph South as its Chief Learning Officer. South previously worked at the US Department of Education and K12 Inc.