educational publishing

The Revolution Will Be Open and Accessible!

On the trade side, we often forget that the shift to digital is affecting academic publishing as well. Recently, there’s been a lot of debate over how to handle journal publication and access to research. The business model is changing there too, as was evident during Open Access week, a global event, now in its 4th year, which promotes Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research. I attended one of its events in Guelph that had me yearning to work on campus with academics.

CourseSmart: Textbooks to Go

I want to go back to university. Not for the (shudder) keggers or the questionable fashion choices or the unquestioned sense that I knew exactly the right way that people, all people should live (man), but instead so that I could get through four years without sowing the seed of chronic back problems later in life. Imagine how life would have been different with iPHONE TEXTBOOKS!

More Kindle: This Time, Textbooks

After an astute tip from one of our Twitter friends (thanks, @Keith_Shay), my last post on the likely soon-to-be-released Kindle didn’t really take everything into account. Yes, the new screen on the Kindle is well-suited for newspapers and it’s certainly the case that newspapers like the NY Times see it as a new frontier to re-capture hearts and minds (or at least eyeballs).

However, as many more astute than me have realized, Amazon’s press conference is being held at a university (Pace University)so looks like textbooks are the big fish frying.