On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:29:02 -0400, Gone Postal
<gone_postal@it.doesn't.exist> wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:43:02 -0400, DOG_NUTS <DOG_NUTS@DOG_NUTS.COM>
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 01:14:20 GMT, StoneDog69 <a@b.c> wrote:
>>
>>>Reading stuff like this gives me unbridled joy.
>>>
>>>Too bad this group didn't get a mention :o(
>>>========================================================
>>>The Wall Street Journal
>>>Aug. 27, 2014 7:29 p.m. ET
>>>
>>>A Tough Lesson for College Textbook Publishers
>>>By JOSH MITCHELL
>>>
>>>As More College Students Opt for Used or Free Books, Companies Are
>>>Forced to Revamp Business Models
>>>
>>>After years of nearly unfettered pricing power, the $7 billion college-
>>>textbook industry is being upended by students like Amanda McQueen.
>>>
>>>The 24-year-old George Washington University graduate student rarely
>>>Amazon, or skips the purchase altogether.
>>>
>>>"It's so easy to find somebody posting a scanned copy" on online sites
>>>like Scribd, an e-book subscription service that allows members to
>>>upload materials, says Ms. McQueen, a North Carolina native working
>>>toward a master-of-public-health degree.
>>
>>The mp3 of the publishing world hah hah hah
>
>
>Perhaps pay-per-chapter books might be a way for publishers to break
>out for e-books. Just as in the old way CD publishers used to sell
>only complete CDs and adapted to the mp3 craze (eventually) by
>breaking out CDs by song so you can buy what you want. I think that
>book publishers could break out chapters of books online to buy
>individually for those not taking the courses but who might be very
>interested in the Introduction and maybe a chapter or two. I would
>certainly consider buying such if it were reasonably priced.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>GP
I've taken classes where we only went through maybe half the chapters.
That would've saved quite a bit of money. I know Cengage is offering
per-chapter sales now.
|
|