![]() The company’s Global Learning Platform, which has been in development for several years, will play a central role in enabling staff to update content in real time. He said that Pearson now has the technology to pull off the transition. Over half of all students now use at least one ebook as part of their studies, signaling increased acceptance of digital materials, said Fallon. The company is now in a position to "break that cycle." Print revisions were a costly and time-consuming process, he said. There is no fixed schedule for how frequently print versions will be created from the digital materials. Instead of the digital product being adapted from the print textbook, the process will be the other way around, said John Fallon, CEO of Pearson, in an interview. Print versions of the materials will still be widely available to rent, but students will be discouraged from buying them with relatively high pricing and limited availability. These digital materials will be updated on an ongoing basis - reflecting new research developments, technology breakthroughs and the latest pedagogical trends. ![]() ![]() titles will become “digital first.”įrom now on, instead of publishing new editions of print textbooks every few years, the publisher will focus its energy on its digital course materials. Pearson, like many publishers in higher education, has long signaled its intent to move from print textbooks to digital courseware.īut today the company went farther than anyone else - announcing that all of its 1,500 U.S. ![]()
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