Edsurge
JULY 11, 2024
There’s a new battle raging in the long-running war over costly college textbooks , one that may strike a serious blow to the textbook subscription programs promoted by publishers and criticized by student advocates. Searching for Savings The business of textbooks elicits strong opinions from nearly everyone in higher education.
Edsurge
JUNE 30, 2020
Among contemporary education critics, the textbook is a classic and perennial foil—perhaps because its very construction is essentially a compromise between experts and politicians, groups with sometimes competing agendas. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Textbooks play a central role in discussions around higher ed affordability , and publishers have long been cast as the villain, pulling in high profits as textbook prices rise. These days some publishers are trying a new sales model they say will save students money: textbook subscription services. higher education product.
Edsurge
MAY 21, 2020
Student complaints about the digital textbook and courseware bundles now assigned in many college classes have escalated into a new batch of legal challenges. And students are used to being able to resell their print textbooks after a semester is over, but digital codes can’t be shared or resold.
Edsurge
JANUARY 28, 2020
Complaints about the textbook subscription deals that colleges are signing with large publishers and retailers landed in federal court last week when a group of off-campus bookstores filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the practice amounts to creating an illegal monopoly. Named in the suit are Barnes & Noble Education Inc.,
Edsurge
JULY 28, 2020
The college textbook publishing industry is trying to move in a similar direction. And it’s recruiting colleges to help by offering them a new kind of deal: Order digital course materials in bulk at a discounted rate, then pass the savings on to students, who are automatically billed for subscriptions to online versions of their textbooks.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks?she culturally relevant textbooks? Usually when you hear any discussion about free textbooks, it really talks about just the cost, and what we’re saying is, it goes way beyond that.”
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