Digital textbooks are killing the used textbook market | The Eyeopener

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-10-20

Summary:

"Coolidge says that some authors have taken a stance on defending access to education by choosing to offer the textbooks that they’ve written with an open license The major publishing companies that dominate the market—McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Wiley and Cengage—say open textbooks do not threaten their commercial business."

Link:

https://theeyeopener.com/2016/10/digital-textbooks-are-killing-the-used-textbook-market/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.textbooks oa.publishers oa.prices oa.education oa.canada oa.oer oa.quality oa.books

Date tagged:

10/20/2016, 15:01

Date published:

10/20/2016, 11:01