Reports on the plan of textbook publisher Pearson Education to offer online versions of its textbooks in fall 2004. Features of the online service SafariX; Cost of the textbooks; Remarks from Stephen D. Williamson, a professor of financial economics at the University of Iowa.Carlson...
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it announced a pilot program, "Project Blue Sky," which lets professors mix and match both Pearson-owned and free online materials to create custom textbooks.
Discusses the use of online textbooks in the U.S. Advantages of online textbooks according to publishers; Information on several online textbook programs from textbook publishers Pearson, Thomson and McGraw-Hill; Details of the business model of Atomic Dog Publishing; Results of a survey conducted ...
who are aggressively pushing online versions of texts or no-frills soft cover versions; Pearson Education, a unit of Pearson PLC, which launched SafariX Textbooks Online, a line of 300 online texts available at half the price of a hardcover; Thomson Higher Education, a unit of Toronto's Thom...
Publishers such as Pearson Education, Wiley-Blackwell, Elsevier and McGraw-Hill have been seeking ways to boost supposed plateaued sales by introducing online elements. However, booksellers like Blackwell's, John Smith, and Thebook.com are reporting increases in sales, theorizing that the lower ...