Wall Street Journal

Textbook Publisher Pearson Bets Big on Online Learning

Andy Bird joined education-resource company Pearson PLCPSO0.27%increase; green up pointing triangle as chief executive officer at a time when education was undergoing an upheaval—the middle of the ...
Gizmodo

Textbook Giant Brings an AI Study Buddy to Its Service for Back-to-School Season

The Pearson+ subscription service offers some eTextbook video tutorials and practice questions, but Pearson will soon add an additional AI chatbot to act as a digital tutor. Photo: Charles Sykes (AP) ...
ZDNet

Pearson unveils Pearson+ platform to address costly college textbook process

British-owned education publishing company Pearson announced the creation of a new platform-- Pearson+ -- that will attempt to offer students more financially flexible ways to access college textbooks ...
Gizmodo

How Can Textbook Publishers Milk Students Even More? NFTs, Apparently

Students have long been screwed by textbooks’ high prices, especially when they’re forced to buy online passcodes to access coursework. Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) The heart of the argument for ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Textbook Giant Is Going ‘Digital First.’ That Might Not Be Good for Affordability.

Traditional textbook publishers are struggling. Secondary sellers like Amazon Marketplace have diverted business, and open-access resources like OpenStax and Lumen Learning are providing professors ...