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UNSW Bookshop survey finds 56% of students prefer printed textbooks
A survey conducted by UNSW Bookshop has found that more than 50% of students prefer to purchase printed textbooks when given the choice between printed textbooks and electronic versions. Of the 717 st...
Amazon launches Kindle textbook rental scheme
Amazon has announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental in the US, a program that offers up to 80% off textbook list prices when customers rent titles from the Kindle Store. Tens of thousands of t...
Flat World pioneers 'freemium' textbooks
Flat World Knowledge, a three-year-old textbook publisher, has released 24 titles which are now in use by 140,000 students at over 800 universities in the United States and another 50 abroad. The co...
US university press starts ebook rental scheme
The University of Michigan Press has announced a new ebook rental program for more than 250 of its scholarly titles, allowing students or faculty to rent digital copies of the books at a discount f...
Macmillan faces World Bank ban over Sudanese 'bribery' claims
Macmillan has admitted making 'bribery payments' to secure a deal to print textbooks in South Sudan.
Macmillan announces interactive textbook platform
Macmillan US has launched a new textbook platform-- Dynamic Books -- that will allow content to be altered and customised, and delivered as ebooks or print-on-demand.
Flat World Knowlege e-textbooks soar in US college market
Flat World Knowledge has announced that its nascent e-textbook business has grown from 1000 to 40,000 college-student customers.
Schwarzenegger plans to wipe out textbooks in California
Governor of California Arnold Schwartznegger wants to make textbooks history in favour of digital formats. Schwarzenegger, trying to plug a budget hole of US$24.3bn, thinks he can make savings by gett...
Textbook publishing 'deserves to die': Godin
Marketing guru Seth Godin thinks that traditional textbooks are a form of academic malpractice' and that 'This industry deserves to die. It has extracted too much time and too much money and wasted to...
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...
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