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Long Live Paper is a New York Times opinion piece by Justin B. Hollander that puts forth the non-sexy idea that print on paper deserves to be with us a while longer, at least when it comes to textbooks. He takes Education Secretary Arne Duncan to task for promoting the “idea of replacing [...]
Read More... →Placements & Salaries 2012: Emerging Jobs, New Titles
LJ’s annual Placements & Salaries survey was released earlier this week and there was some surprisingly good news. Despite the seeming glacial pace of the recovery, according to the 2012 survey “there were numerous bright spots and unprecedented gains, ranging from positive salary growth [...]
Read More... →This fascinating article from the Boston Globe talks about a new product called ReadCube Access that offers “an iTunes model of single sales” for journal articles. The model reduces “the cost of individual articles — [...]
Read More... →Publishers See Online Mega-Courses as Opportunity to Sell Textbooks
Jennifer Howard writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education about a topic that anyone interested in publishing will find fascinating. She focuses on how some publishers are expanding to new markets opening around the growing MOOC movement. MOOC’s or massive open online courses are [...]
Read More... →BiblioLabs’ new app may redefine libraries and help Charleston become a high-tech hub
Anyone who enjoys an entrepreneurial success story will find this article worth the read. It highlights a creative and innovative approach to ebook publishing – and what is even better, it’s happening right here a few blocks away from the [...]
Read More... →With ‘Access Codes,’ Textbook Pricing Gets More Complicated Than Ever
This is an interesting piece from the Chronicle of Higher Education by Jeffrey R. Young that uses one of the less talked about problems with the evolving textbook market to highlight the various issues that publishers and users face in the brave new world [...]
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