A Textbook Publisher in a ‘Sea of Calm’? How Houghton Mifflin Is Navigating the Digital Transition
This decade has not been kind to traditional textbook publishers, as many publishers struggled to adapt their businesses from print to digital. Yet despite it all, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a stalwart in the K-12 publishing industry, says it’s been in a “sea of calm”. Read more
More publishers fail as e-books rise
UK e-book revenues climbed 11 per cent to £563m in 2014, while sales of physical books fell 5 per cent to £2.7bn. Read more
Report: Higher ed’s regulatory ‘triad’ needs an overhaul
The three bodies that together oversee higher education in the U.S. are in need of an extreme overhaul, argues a new report from New America. Read more