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  Digital textbooks to not equate to lower textbook prices

  1150 readersFrom Inside Higher Ed comes this article by Caroline Vanderlip: If textbook affordability is the Holy Grail, then those of us who work in higher education are careening Monty Python-like as we search for it, stirring up unnecessary obstacles for ourselves all along the way. Consider the dual paths we are taking. First, there’s the

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  25% of textbook annual revenue to be from digital by 2015

  1132 readersFrom the press release: According to a new study by Xplana, textbook publishing in the Higher Education market is fast approaching the digital tipping point. By 2015, annual revenues from digital textbooks will represent 25 percent of the new textbook market and will reach approximately $1.5 billion in sales revenue. The study, “Digital Textbook Reaching

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  SharedBook Now Offers DIY Textbooks

  1842 readersSharedBook has just launched AcademicPub, a new service which helps instructors gather and organize their own textbook. This new service works something like the MIYO service that Flat World Knowledge launched a few weeks back. Educators can build thei...

• Custom E-Textbook Platform Adds Multimedia Capabilities

  330 readers [Press Release] SharedBook Inc., Introduces at EDUCAUSE- Multimedia Now Integral in AcademicPub Custom Books Embedded Links And QR Codes Enhance Learning Materials AcademicPub™, the leading provider of custom books – digital and print – for the higher education community, announced the upcoming addition of multimedia capability, enabling instructors on the platform to add a video, audio or image

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  Students Still Not Taking to E-Textbooks, New Data Show

  139 readers Despite the benefits of lower costs, lighter backpacks, added features and convenience, students just aren’t taking to e-textbooks, a new study shows. About 6% of students are using a “core digital textbook” as their main course material, according to a new study from the Book Industry Study Group, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of four-year

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  Etextbooks saved students little money, according to study

  1061 readers From The Chronicle of Higher Education.  More in the article: Despite the promise that digital textbooks can lead to huge cost savings for students, a new study at Daytona State College has found that many who tried e-textbooks saved only one dollar, compared with their counterparts who purchased traditional printed material. The study, conducted over four semesters,

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  Justice Department sues Apple and major publishers over agency model, but rumors of a settlement could keep the agency model alive

  1025 readersIs it a good thing that Apple let's publishers set their own eBook prices, or does this model, called the agency model, lead to price fixing and higher prices for consumers? Or are both things true at the same time? The U.S. Justice Department today filed suit against Apple Inc. and major book publishers over the

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  Does Steve Jobs hate reading?

  4180 readersThat’s the provocative theory put forward by Sue Zoldak in an opinion piece on The Daily Caller blog. She starts out by noting that in some cases hardcover prices are lower than e-book prices (something I’ve mentioned before myself), and points out that—unlike the iTunes deal that lowered the price of music when sold digitally—Jobs

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  Berkley/NAL will launch InterMix, a new ebook imprint

  40141 readers From Publishers Weekly: With demand for mass market paperbacks withering, Berkley/NAL, the mass market paperback division of Penguin, will launch a new e-book imprint in January that will operate much like a mass market paperback publisher. InterMix will focus on titles in traditional mass market genres—women’s fiction, romance, mystery/thriller and science

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  AcademicPub to create digital textbooks built by faculty

  2007 readersFrom Campus Technology: A company with technology for creating digital-to-print books is getting into the textbook market. AcademicPub, a division of SharedBook, has introduced a service that enables instructors to create digital and print texts by compiling materials from multiple sources: copyrighted works, faculty-created material, and resources the company has in its own library. The service also