Where is the Netflix for College Textbooks? – Higher Education – Medium

Dean Florez | Chief Instigator | Member, California Air Resource Board | CEO, Balance, Inc. | Past CA Senate Majority Leader | Harvard MBA | UCLA Bruin | Feb 15, 2014

The reason? The technology sector has failed to solve the problem. Create the killer app. Provide the scalable platform. To stimulate innovation through competition. Yes, the sector that brought down…

"Textbook publishers today have student’s paralyzed to a point that they rarely buy textbooks according to the advocacy group U.S. PIRG in their recently issued report “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market.” The report tells us that “not only are students choosing not to purchase the materials they are assigned by their professor, but they are knowingly accepting the risk of a lower grade to avoid paying for the textbook.”...

Dean Florez | Chief Instigator | Member, California Air Resource Board | CEO, Balance, Inc. | Past CA Senate Majority Leader | Harvard MBA | UCLA Bruin | Feb 15, 2014

The reason? The technology sector has failed to solve the problem. Create the killer app. Provide the scalable platform. To stimulate innovation through competition. Yes, the sector that brought down…

"Textbook publishers today have student’s paralyzed to a point that they rarely buy textbooks according to the advocacy group U.S. PIRG in their recently issued report “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market.” The report tells us that “not only are students choosing not to purchase the materials they are assigned by their professor, but they are knowingly accepting the risk of a lower grade to avoid paying for the textbook.”...