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This won't be shocking, but there's a clear disconnect between publishers and an important market segment.

A private school in Toronto is replacing its textbooks with the Sony e-reader.

With a new tablet device, Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry-and expand Apple's influence and revenue as a content middleman." />

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are an opportunity for textbook publishers, but they can also be a threat.

Pearson offers free, cloud-based learning management software hoping it will eventually lead to increased e-textbook sales.

An executive in McGraw-Hill's higher-ed division discusses new strategies and models.

Free and shared cost models for academic publishing. Cites other organizations that, like NAP, have sustainable models with free content.

In 2007 the JISC national e-books observatory project was set up to undertake market research to help e-book publishers, aggregators, libraries and funding bodies understand the behaviours of e-book users and to assess the impact of free at-the-point of use course text e-books on traditional print sales to students