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Etextbook Update
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by Paula J. Hane
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I've been regularly covering news of digital textbooks for several years. It is now a market in such flux, with so many developments, startup launches, reports of research, publishing company restructuring and mergers, and more, that it warrants revisiting frequently. This is a review of some recent noteworthy developments and a discussion of a report on student acceptance.
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New Bowker Study on Ebook Markets
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The rise in ebook reading in the U.S. and U.K. over the last 3 years has been a key driver in the market share gains of e-retailers, according to research being released this month by Bowker Market Research. In the U.S., e-retailers accounted for 44% of book purchases by volume in 2012, up from 25% in 2010. In the U.K., the rise has been somewhat less dramatic but still significant, up from 25% in January-November 2010, to 38% in the same period in 2012.
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Semantico to Redesign Access Science for McGraw-Hill Professional
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Semantico, suppliers of digital publishing solutions to the scholarly and professional market, announced it has been selected by McGraw-Hill Professional, to deliver a redesign of its AccessScience content platform. McGraw-Hill Professional and Semantico have already worked together to successfully design and deliver AccessEngineering. AccessScience information will be delivered using Semantico's content platform, Scolaris.
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Reprints Desk, Inc. Announces New Open Access Filter
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Reprints Desk, Inc. announced the launch of a new open access (OA) filter for the company's document delivery service that is used by research-driven companies and institutions to acquire single copies of scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. It helps corporate and academic customers avoid unnecessary spending on content by checking OA status and delivering article-level links for each matching order.
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SAGE Strikes Gold with Andy Field’s New Statistics Textbook/Ebook
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by Nancy K. Herther
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Serendipity, chance, and a lot of hard work go into creating any textbook. Given the changing market for texts, constant technological change, the open access movement, and the challenge of passing textbook committees and other potential barriers, publishers in this lucrative niche have reasons to wonder about the future. SAGE Publications may have found the perfect formula for success, a "gold standard" for today's marketplace in the publishing franchise, in Sussex University's Andy Field. Field has found his way through the challenges and opportunities of textbook creation brilliantly—while injecting his personality, life story, and humor—to create an award-winning and wildly popular brand in the unlikely area of quantitative research methods.
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