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Amazon Sting Operation Targets Counterfeit Textbook Sales

December 14, 2018
By Sara Grace

Amazon is cracking down on merchants using its site to sell counterfeit textbooks, CNBC reported. A sting operation lead to the suspension of at least 20 merchants —  a move intended to send publishers a clear message that Amazon is a serious partner in their effort to prevent the sale of counterfeit product. Booksellers whose […]

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Amazon Launches Self-Published Textbook Creator, KDP EDU

January 22, 2015
By Sarah Weinman

Apple launched iBooks Author all the way back in early 2012, so the only surprise about Amazon’s new self-published digital textbook platform, KDP EDU, is that it took so long. The public beta of Amazon’s Kindle Textbook Creator tool allows educators to turn PDFs of their textbooks and course materials into Kindle books. Available features include flashcards, multi-color […]

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eNews: Google Adds Textbooks, and More

July 25, 2013
By Michael Cader

For most people Google’s Chromecast (a dongle that lets you display video from computers and tablets on a TV screen) was their most enticing product announcement on Wednesday. But those announcements included the news that digital textbooks will be added to the US Google Play store in August. Google will join Kindle, Nook, iBookstore, CourseSmart […]

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Textbook Time: Kno Adds K-12 eTexts and Amazon Joins Book Rental Market

August 7, 2012
By Michael Cader

Back to school time looms, which means more textbook announcements. Start-up Kno is expanding from their base in college textbooks to the K-12 textbook market. They offer one-year rentals for $9.99 or less (though any parent knows that trying to “finally stop their kids from carrying their heavy backpacks to and from school” is a […]

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Corporate News: Scholastic Buys Learners Publishing; Bertelsmann Sells 50 Percent Stake in Pubbles to Weltbild

January 4, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Scholastic announced Monday that its Singapore subsidiary acquired Learners Publishing, a Singapore-based publisher of supplemental English-language learning materials which has published more than 400 titles since its founding in 2000.  “Through this acquisition, Scholastic’s offering of products in the English Language Learning segment is significantly enhanced,” Scholastic International president, growth markets Shane Armstrong said in the […]

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Cengage Swings to Loss; Will Need to Refinance

September 29, 2011
By Michael Cader

Cengage had sales of $1.88 billion in their most recent fiscal year, ending in June, but the textbook company went from income of $47 million in the previous year to a loss of $37 million. Thirty-one percent of recents come from digital products and print-and-digital bundles. Bought by Apax Partners in the overvalued days of […]

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