Macmillan capitalized on all that openly licensed content to create courses in general education disciplines such as American government, sociology, economics, pre-algebra, psychology and chemistry.

1931 MacMillan Geography Textbooks: Elementary Education & Climate. Posted: February 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025 "Living Geography" is a trades film from 1930 created for educators ...

No modern book approaches this, but the Elson Readers have climbed to some 50,000,000 copies since 1910, are still going strong. Total sales of textbooks in the U. S. last year were about $50,000,000.

The publishers Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education filed their joint complaint last month in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

First came free online courses. Now come — with a few conditions — free online textbooks. Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, from dozens of universities, announced ...

Yesterday, some of the biggest textbook publishers sued Library Genesis, an illegal shadow library that publishers are accusing of "extensive violations of federal copyright law.". Publishers ...

OER textbook startup Boundless Learning is being sued for copyright infringement by Pearson, Cengage, and Macmillan. While the startup says that it's using openly licensed content to build its free ...

Many social scientists have a virulent disdain for geographers. Some, so much so that whenever there was a need to take the equivalent of Occam’s razor to the declining college budget, the ...

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Macmillan Education Caribbean has released a series of new study material that is specifically geared towards primary school students within the OECS sub-region. The new text ‘Footprints’ is a ...

While the international part of Macmillan focused more on science and education, in the US trade books – the fiction and non-fiction selling in bulk in online and high street book stores – was ...