Philippine Educational Publishing at 75: Procurement Woes and Sector
PEPA’s 75th anniversary highlights textbook procurement delays and reforms. Educational publishing’s industry role and reading culture implications explored.
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Category: Education Publishing
eKitabu Launches Children’s Imprint: Redefining African Publishing from Kenya to the World
Kenya’s eKitabu launches Maua Books, a new children’s imprint. After award-winning Mvua Press & inclusive KSL audio/theatre innovations, they redefine African publishing.
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Hachette Learning Cuts Signal Painful Reckoning for UK Education Publishers
The industry is now paying the price for its dependency on a single, volatile customer.
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Reading Between the Lines: The UK PA’s Agenda-Driven Response to the Curriculum Review
Analysis of the UK PA’s response to the curriculum review, arguing it cherry-picks findings to lobby against Oak National Academy.
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Publishing in Nigeria – A Collaborative Path to Educational Growth
By collaborating with the government to supply affordable and high-quality textbooks, publishers can play a crucial role in ensuring that the free education policy achieves its intended outcomes.
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Perlego’s new Read Aloud feature, in beta, offers learners meaningful audio-access to textbooks
Apparently, more than one third of Perlego users prefer audio, so this could be hugely popular if it delivers as well as they suggest.
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Children reading for pleasure at an all-time low. Industry in panic mode. The problem lies in the classroom, not the industry
Does anyone seriously expect a child to enjoy reading if they cannot read properly?
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Pearson credits AI with driving sales
Pearson is at the forefront of a fundamental shift in educational publishing that in time is going to bring into question the very viability of printed books in the education sector.
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UK education publishers wanting more money for cash-strapped schools is self-serving
Welcome to the slippery-slope world of synthetic phonics, brought to you by publishers.
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Pearson doubles down on generative AI – “a net positive for Pearson” – amid strong H1 growth
“I very much see generative AI as being a net positive for Pearson” – CEO Andy Bird. Pearson...
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“Complementary content and technologies.” OverDrive completes Kanopy acquisition
Digital video, digital audio, digital text, digital conferencing, digital book fairs, digital,...
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Penguin UK’s audio-study guides for A-Level is a move emerging market publishers might productively improve upon
We are just skimming the surface of what’s possible with digital books, and while the emerging...
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