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Comment on Legacy Textbook Publisher No Longer on Speaking Terms With Reality by Andrew Bender

Andrew Bender — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:29:52 +0000

Hi Steve. If they wished to do so, Cengage has plenty of ways to get their side of the story out. I suspect that they simply want this to go away, and I can’t blame their poor PR people for wanting to bury it.

Comment on Legacy Textbook Publisher No Longer on Speaking Terms With Reality by steve Elliot

steve Elliot — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:38:49 +0000

Andrew
While I understand your sentiments and post. Perhaps you could invite representatives of the big three and perhaps 6. Higher Education Publishers to respond this would give a balanced discussion.

It would be nice to hear what the following companies are doing:

Ascend Learning (Jones and Bartlett)
Cengage
McGraw-Hill
Pearson
Wiley
Jones and Bartlett
Worth and Freeman

Thanks!

Comment on Apple’s Textbook Announcement: One Week Later by John Holdcroft

John Holdcroft — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:16:33 +0000

I think one major point to re-emphasize is Apple’s “lock-in” content model. One can build a textbook in ibooks author, but one cannot sell it in any other distribution model. I am surprised more mainstream educators are not speaking out about this. This model will be great if the author, reader only swim in the streams of Appleville with an IPAD or other Apple device. Once you seek to walk out of the water, you have no content to take with you. This reminds me more of Amazon with its insistence on publishes using MOBI files and the files not being exportable to any other source. Universities and their teachers and students should expect to be in an open sourced river, flowing into all steams. Enjoyed the blogpost.

Comment on Apple’s Textbook Announcement: One Week Later by Steve Elliot

Steve Elliot — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:29:49 +0000

Andrew-
I agree with your comments for the most part, this is a lot of hype.
Most technology companies when approaching the building of an educational tool look at the challenge as how to build a better gadget and why not that’s their strength. Apple realizes that they are not experts in the development of content or textbooks for that matter, so they are partnering with educational publishers. To me this makes perfect sense, time will tell if the venture will be a successful one.

There was an interesting take on the future of Digital textbooks on NPR’s On-Point last week please see
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/01/24/future-of-textbooks

Comment on Buckminster Fuller, Meet Stewart Calculus by Apple’s Textbook Announcement: One Week Later « The Eleven Learning Blog

Apple’s Textbook Announcement: One Week Later « The Eleven Learning Blog — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:07:35 +0000

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Comment on Boffo Biology Book Has Brain-Bending $10 Million Budget by Apple’s Textbook Announcement: One Week Later « The Eleven Learning Blog

Apple’s Textbook Announcement: One Week Later « The Eleven Learning Blog — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:07:18 +0000

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Comment on Three Lies That Textbook Publishers Tell by CourseDirector (@CourseDirector1)

CourseDirector (@CourseDirector1) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:09:41 +0000

Interesting post Phil. As an existing LMS in the Google Apps Marketplace we were interested to hear about this supposed ‘joint venture’ promoted by Pearson. You may also be interested in my blog post: http://cloudsourcesolutions.com/2011/10/why-there%E2%80%99s-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lms/

Comment on Three Lies That Textbook Publishers Tell by Andrew Bender

Andrew Bender — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:27:09 +0000

Thanks Phil. Somehow I missed that. Unfortunately, it’s not very surprising…

Comment on Three Lies That Textbook Publishers Tell by Phil Hill (@PhilOnEdTech)

Phil Hill (@PhilOnEdTech) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:30:28 +0000

Interesting post. I would add one other area for skepticism of publisher intentions – their support of SOPA.
http://mfeldstein.com/educational-publishers-appear-to-be-supporting-sopa/

Comment on The Bay Area goes to Eleven (or vice versa) by Andrew Bender

Andrew Bender — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:07:52 +0000

Thanks Caleb! It’s great to have you on board.