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Students scanning textbooks to file-share
'College textbook publishing has a particularly nasty problem on its hands,' says the New York Times. 'College students may be the angriest group of captive customers to be found anywhere.' And they'r...
Pearson head sees textbooks becoming an 'add-on'
'The strategic plan is that we have been trying to move everything away from a textbook business. More and more we see the textbook as a kind of useful add-on,' said Pearson CEO Marjorie Scardino in m...
US textbook publishers win copyright lawsuit over foreign editions
McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson Education, John Wiley & Sons and Cengage Learning have won US$125,000 in damages in a US court case against two Chinese-based online booksellers. The booksellers wer...
E-textbooks no cheaper
A report based on a survey of US college students has shown that textbooks that are made available as e-books are no cheaper than print versions, once home printing costs and resal...
Amazon aims Kindle at textbooks
Amazon is apparently aiming for a slice of the textbook mnarket with an updated 'student-friendly' version of its Kindle e-book reader, reports E-commerce News.
In brief
Miles Franklin and NSW Prem's shortlists next weekThe shortlists for both the Miles Franklin Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards will be announced next week--the Prem's prize shortlist on Wedn...
US textbook prices 'rise 186% in 20 years'
According to 'The Business Shrink' website, the price of university textbooks in the US has risen '186% since 1986'. This 6% per year increase is about double the rate of inflation.
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