In many ways 2018 was the year big tech finally took it on the chin. Publishers who have wrestled with big tech’s influence on their business for years took notice.
February 19, 2019K12 Inc., manager of virtual schools and provider of online learning resources, in August made a $9 million investment in STEM Premier to help grow the online community that links current and future workforce talent with organizational recruiting needs in a variety of career fields.
August 22, 2018Faced with a changing media landscape, newspaper publishers have struggled to remain relevant over the years. As distrust in the news media grows, it seems like the worst possible time to place tariffs on the very paper used to print newspapers – newsprint – and publishers have taken it upon themselves to roll them back.
August 15, 2018Publishers are approaching changes in the PreK-12 instructional materials market in different ways
August 7, 2018Elsevier, Springer Nature, John Wiley & Sons and Informa have fended off the advent of preprint article repositories, open access journals, funder mandates, boycotts and big deal library subscription cancellations. Here are five reasons why these leading companies continue to endure...
July 11, 2018Higher education publishers and distributors are ramping up their efforts to change the way college students acquire and access course materials, increasingly with the support of institutions and faculty.
March 19, 2018US publisher revenues from textbooks are projected to rise 3.8% through 2021, with price growth underpinning gains. As the cost of these books continues to rise, consumers – who are primarily students – have sought ways to acquire them at lower price points, sometimes illegally. The need for publishers to overcome this challenge will continue to drive the development of value-added print books, e-books, and their accompanying software programs.
December 12, 2017Repeal and replace fell flat and the bipartisan deal on health insurance reform seems unlikely — cracks in the Affordable Care Act have turned to fissures that threaten to swallow one fifth of the U.S. economy.
October 26, 2017Intelligent technology one day becoming ubiquitous, leaving us all jobless and at the mercy of machines, is a notion deeply rooted in science fiction for most people. But truth is sometimes stranger than science fiction.
October 24, 2017Houghton Mifflin Harcourt appointed new executives in October who will report directly to president and CEO Jack Lynch.
October 17, 2017