Ingram’s VitalSource announced Monday it has acquired the assets of CourseSmart, the online textbook venture created in 2007 by a coalition of the field’s dominant publishers, including Macmillan, Cengage Learning, Wiley, McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson. CourseSmart has millions of users around the world and “offers access to over 90 percent of core higher education titles as e-textbooks along with the largest catalog of e-resources and digital course materials.” Ingram says “CourseSmart’s strengths in inventory, instructor sampling and analytics will be integrated with Vital Source’s reader platform and global, scalable distribution network. By combining the two organizations, Vital Source will offer the world’s largest […]