College Textbooks and EdTech Innovation

The world's largest educational publisher, UK-based Pearson PLC, is in crisis. Last month, the company, whose 2015 revenues totalled nearly £4.5 bi... (2017)

Congress is providing its first ever funding for open textbooks to make college more affordable in the FY18 omnibus bill set to pass this week. (2018)

Estimated Market size (college textbooks, USA), 2017: $20 billion USD (2018)

Quartz, 2017: "Initiatives in Maryland and New York are attempting to curb rising education costs by adopting open-source, copyright-free textbook... (2017)

"It’s popular to predict the death of the textbook—and these days even textbook providers seem eager to move away from their age-old publishing mod... (2017)

Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown did something that will put thousands of dollars into the pockets of California community colleg... (2016)

"Listening to the political debates about education in the United States, you might get the mistaken impression that nothing is changing other than... (2016)

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

Business Insider: "Students told researchers they preferred and performed better when reading on screens. But their actual performance tended to su... (2017)

Walk through a bookstore and you can see $5.99 paperbacks along one wall and omg-how-much? college textbooks along the other. E-textbook company Re... (2018)

Should we welcome it? The result is a classroom experience starkly different from the model that has dominated American education for the past... (2018)

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingram Content Group's Vital Source Technologies Acquires CourseSmart. "CourseSmart was founded ... (2018)

Much-hyped company, early player in adaptive learning, plans to take on the publishers. Some see promise; others have doubts. "Knewton, a pionee... (2018)

Throughout the past decade, Knewton’s adaptive learning technology has been backed by some of the biggest names in the both the publishing and ve... (2017)

California efforts to cut college textbook costs are bearing fruit. California State University says it saved students $36 million last year. (2018)

From 2006 to 2016, the cost of textbooks increased by 88 percent, more than than nearly any other college student expense—including tuition and fee... (2018)

The Rice University-based OER publisher reported that students across 5,160 colleges and universities are saving a combined $177 million on its tex... (2018)

Perlego, which has been dubbed the ‘Spotify for textbooks,’ has closed $4.8 million in finding. Leading the round is ADV, with participation from e... (2018)

My coauthor and I have finished a textbook! That's right, a full-length, fully-featured academic textbook. Algorithms for Optimization has its own ... (2018)

Digital-first. Open source. Subscription. The way textbooks are bought and sold is changing—with serious implications for higher education. (2019)

The homework help used by millions of students With Textbook Solutions you get more than just answers. See step-by-step how to solve tough probl... (2020)