Enhancing E-book Purchases: Consumer Driven Models From the Text Book Industry
By John Konczal, Global Industry Executive, Sterling Commerce, an IBM Company When the mere act of delivering content digitally isn’t enough, textbook publishers are coming ...
View ArticleAEP’s Charlene Gaynor on Digitization in Educational Publishing
Interview with Charlene Gaynor, CEO of the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) on digitization in educational publishing.
View ArticleNeed To Know: Amazon Offers Kindle Textbook Rental
Amazon Kindle launches a textbook rental platform with thousands of titles, cloud storage for notes and highlights.
View ArticleBetter to Sell Fewer Books with No Piracy or Sell More with More Piracy?
Is it worth enduring piracy of digital content if it means higher sales overall?
View ArticleDigital Textbooks Go Global, Go Multimedia, Go Mainstream
Ingram's VitalSource supplies 80,000 digital textbooks in 17 languages to 1.6 million students and faculty at 6,000 campuses in 180 countries.
View ArticleColombian Conglomerate Norma Shutters Adult Trade Division to Focus on Education
Colombian media reports unhappily that publisher Norma will stop publishing adult fiction, nonfiction and self help to focus on educational publishing.
View ArticleAmazon Moves Into Kids Books, Acquires Marshall Cavendish
By Dennis Abrams On December 6, Amazon.com signed a deal to acquire over 450 titles of the US children’s trade book business of Marshall Cavendish ...
View ArticleWhy is the Middle East Important to British Publishers?
Demand for UK academic titles is growing and Western bestsellers are hits in the Mid East: just 2 reasons why the UK is the country focus as this week's ADIBF.
View ArticleGermany’s Digital Innovators on Display at Publishers’ Forum
The Publishers Forum in Berlin addressed the growing development of digital products like enhanced e-books, digital textbooks, e-book subscriptions.
View ArticleGermany’s GRIN Extends Platform to Digital First, Int’l Publishers
Germany's GRIN, a 14-year-old platform for academic self-publishing, is now offering services to digital-first, trade and international publishers.
View ArticleEducaTablet: Latin America’s New Mobile-centric K-12 Content Platform
EducaTablet has launched a digital-content ecosystem where Latin American students can access textbooks from major publishers, in Spanish and English, online and off. The post EducaTablet: Latin...
View ArticleCould Government Policy Destroy South African Publishing?
The South African government has decided to severely restrict purchases of textbooks, undermining a market largely dependent on education sales to the government. The post Could Government Policy...
View ArticleThe Danish Digitization Debate and Educational Publishers’ Dilemma
'We need to leave the old distinction between analog and digital behind,' says a Danish educational publisher. But is the new approach working? The post The Danish Digitization Debate and Educational...
View ArticleEdtech: Russian Publisher Prosveshcheniye Announces a Digital Educational...
In a bid to build a comprehensive digital educational content platform for Russia, the publisher Prosveshcheniye creates a partnership with ISP Yandex. The post Edtech: Russian Publisher...
View ArticleRotenberg Sells His Stake in Russian Educational Publisher Prosveshchenie
Amid reports that Detskaya Literatura will be privatized comes word that Arkady Rotenberg has sold out of Russian educational publisher Prosveshchenie. The post Rotenberg Sells His Stake in Russian...
View ArticleOne Russian Textbook Publisher Sues Another Over Alleged Trademark Infringement
Russian publisher Prosveshchenie accuses Ventana-Graf of wrongfully using its logo on thousands of textbooks—and that those books are therefore 'counterfeit.' The post One Russian Textbook Publisher...
View Article94 Canadian School Boards and Ministries Sue Access Copyright: Writers Call...
With five years of copyright revenue reportedly compromised under Canada's Copyright Modernization Act, the country's education sector now is suing Access Copyright for money from three prior years....
View ArticleCanadian Publishers Blast School Boards’ Lawsuit of Access Copyright
'We have no choice but to interpret this suit as the intimidating action that it is,' says the leadership of the Association of Canadian Publishers in a statement on the lawsuit by almost 100 school...
View ArticleAn Exclusive New Column Series: Richard Charkin on the Vocabulary of Publishing
If "unputdownable" means "putdownable" and "educational publishing" is "anything that's not trade publishing," what does "quality" mean in an insider's lexicon of the book industry? Ask Richard...
View ArticleRichard Charkin: Seed Questions for an ‘Agony Journal’ for Publishing, ‘Ask...
In his exclusive column for Publishing Perspectives, Richard Charkin asks why 'the largest advances ... go to the authors who need the money least, and vice-versa?' and other questions for a journal...
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