It also said that prices would be “up to 80 percent” off print list prices, which is the same claim that Amazon makes on Kindle textbook rentals. Google said it’s working with the five largest textbook publishers and that students would be able to purchase digital textbooks or rent them for up to six months. In August Google will start selling and renting digital textbooks through the Google Play Books store. Google Play to sell and rent digital textbooks iBooks Textbooks allows publishes to create interactive, digital-native texts for students that can be accessed using the iBooks app on any Mac or iOS device “We can’t wait to see how teachers in even more countries will create their new lesson plans with interactive textbooks, apps and rich digital content," Eddy Cue, Apple's SVP of Internet Software and Services, said in a statement.Ģ013. ![]() Some of the new countries which now have access to the platforms include Brazil, Italy, Japan, Russia, Thailand and Malaysia. iBooks Textbooks, which offers interactive digital textbooks, is now available in 51 countries in Asia, Latin America, Europe and beyond. Apple iBooks Textbooks Now Available in 51 CountriesĪpple is expanding its educational service iBooks Textbooks into new countries as part of a continued push to dominate the global education market. Kindle Textbook Creator seems designed for speed, and for working with the legacy textbook publishing industry, as opposed to iBooks Author which is more designed to help educators build digital-native experiences from scratch.Ģ014. It’s kind of like iBooks Author for Apple and iTunes U, but it uses PDFs of existing texts as a starting point and offers over-the-top digital features for Kindle-based consumption. It’s called the Kindle Textbook Creator, and it lets authors prepare electronic textbooks for students, for publication across Fire tablets, Android devices, iPhones and iPads, Mac and PCs. New Kindle Textbook Creator allows to create ebooks for studentsĪmazon launched a new tool for its Kindle Direct Publishing authors, via a new KDP EDU wing of the same aimed at educators and academic institutions. It also supplies publishers with detailed data on the consumption of titles.Ģ015. ![]() Perlego says it helps publishers monetise their content to a large segment of price-sensitive students that would otherwise buy their books from the used-books market or download pirated copies. Publishers receive 65 percent of each subscription on a consumption basis. To be able to do this, it works with 650 publishers, including big names like Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Macmillan Higher Education, and Cengage Learning. The new service Perlego provides students and professionals unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of academic and professional eBook titles for £12 a month. As long as the needed text books are available on the service, that is infinitely more affordable. In the U.K., Perlego gives readers access to its entire digital library for £12 per month. For the students, the draw is obvious: text books are increasingly expensive to purchase, and public libraries are under resourced. publishers, Perlego now also includes content from key publishers in Germany, the Nordics and Italy. It houses over 300,000 eBooks, from over 2,300 publishers, and the service is cross-device - via the web and iOS and Android apps - and available in multiple languages. ![]() Perlego - textbook subscription serviceĬalling itself “Spotify for textbooks,” Perlego enables students to access textbooks on a subscription basis. For this early release, Channels is available to all college students for free, even if they aren’t using a Pearson textbook.Ģ019. The video system is called Channels, and has more than 10,000 short-form videos, produced, picked, and organized by experts into 16-course areas with an emphasis on science, math, and business-difficult subjects where millions of students seek video tutoring. The company has just introduced some brand new enhancements for the back to school season, such as engaging and curated content to fit how students prefer to study, dynamic and interactive video. ![]() Pearson launched the digital textbook platform Pearson+ a year ago and they now have 4.5 million registered users and 330,000 paid subscribers. Pearson releases new curated videos in their textbook app
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