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Reader Rabbit hopping into e-books| NEW YORK, March 18, 2004 -- A five-book phonics series based on the Riverdeep educational character Reader Rabit will be issued by LeapFrog in a joint deal. The first three books, in digital format, are scheduled for fall. |
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Northeastern Press latest U-press loss| BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 17, 2004 -- Another university press is shutting down. Northeastern University will be shuttered with the release of its fall list, acting director Jill Bahcall said. The first of the remaining nine employees will depart in May, the last in October. University spokesperson Christine Phelan blamed "purely financial reasons," citing increased paper and production costs, as well as returns. The decision came after a lot of hand-wringing Phelan said. Northeastern Press has been issuing 35 books a year, mostly in black literature, criminal justice, history, music, and women's studies. Its all-time best-seller has been Simon Reeve's The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism, which made the New York Times bestseller in 2002, but the Press overprinted the book and had to accept 20,000 returned copies, exacerating its financial situation. A continuing success has been the scholarly edition of Grace Melious's Peyton Place of 1956. |
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Book sales dismal to start 2004NEW YORK, March 16, 2004 -- Book sales in the United Sttaes for January were below those of a year earlier in most categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers. El-sales were an exception, up 4.7 percent to $81.8 million. College textbooks were down 4.7 percent to $201.8 million. Here is the year-to-date data as extrapolated from 92 reporting publishers:
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Pearson chief in lung surgery | NEW YORK, March 9, 2004 -- The chief executive at Pearson Education, Peter Jovanovich, underwent a double lung transplant. His doctor described his outlook positively. Several months of recuperation are expected. Jovanovich began a medical in December for what was described as a recurring pulmonary problem. |
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Thomson goes with Respondus test banks| NEW YORK, March 6, 2004 -- Thomson college imprints will begin offering test banks for their textbooks in the Respondus format this spring. Respondus materials fit with several course management systems, Thomson said. The test banks will be available at first to adopters of 100 or more units of tests from Brooks-Cole, Heinle, South-Western and Wadsworth. |
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Riverdeep products in federal study| WASHINGTON, March 5, 2004 -- A $10 million federal study on the effectiveness of technology in teaching reading and math will include Destination Reading courseware developed by Riverdeep, the U.S. Department of Educatuon announced. Randomized classroom trials will be held starting this fall. The study was ordered by Congress to guide policy on improving pupil achievement. |
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| Pearson Education: Sales fell 11 percent to US$4.4 billion in 2003, compared to a year earlier, due mostly to the loss of a U.S. Transportation Security Administration testing contract. School sales grew 2 percent to $2.1 billion. College sales were off slightly at $1.4 billion. Professional sales fell 52 percent to $900 million.
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| Wiley: Sales grew 10 percent to $274.2 million in the third quarter, ended Jan. 31, compared to a year earlier. Net income grew 17 percent to $28.3 million. Higher-ed sales grew 7 percent; science, technical and medical sales, 7 percent; and professional and business sales 3 percent.
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Gaafoo foreign import case settled| NEW YORK, March 4, 2004 -- A trademark and copyright infringement suit against Gaafoo.com,, filed by publishers Pearson Education and John Wiley, has been settled. The publishers claimed that Gaffoo, also known as Costcobooks.com, imnported foreign editions of Pearson and Wiley books. Settlement erms were not announced. The suit was filed in September in federal court. |
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South Dakota e-learning grows| ABERDEEN, South Dakota, March 3, 2004 -- Enrollment has almost doubled in an e-learning program aimed at rural pupils, the Center for Statewide E-Learning at Northern State University. This year, the second of the project, 624 pupils from 69 school duistrricts are taking courses that smaller districts cannot afford to ofer. These include calculus and second-year Spanish. Nine teachers offer the classes, 28 a day, from Northern State. |
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| W. Steve Albrecht (accounting), Brigham Young University, and Chad O. Albrecht (accounting), Brigham Young University, wrote Fraud Examination and Prevention (South-West). |
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| Richard Windsor (health) , George Washington University, Noreen Clark (health), University of Michigan, Neal Richard Boyd (health), George Washington University, and Robert M. Goodman (health), University of Pittsburgh, wrote the third edition of Evaluation of Health Promotion, Health Education, and Disease Prevention Programs (McGraw-Hill). |
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Silverman book free to SA2 members| WINONA, Minnesota, March 2, 2004 -- Until the supply is exhausted, SA2 members will receive Frank Silverman's latest authoring book, Self-Publishing Textbooks and Instructional Materials, with their $26 membership. The book, a $19 value, will be shipped postage-free from the publisher, Atlantic Path Publishing. Send a message to sa2 with your mailing address. List the field in which you write. If you're published, list our latest title. |
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Could Idaho Press have been saved?| MOSCOW, Idaho, March 1, 2004 -- The director of the University of Idaho Press, Ivar Nelson, said major progress was being made on the Press' financial situation when the university pulled the plug. Over the last two years, Nelson said, losses from the 1990s had been stemmed. The closure was premature, he said. In a letter to campus people, Nelson said university administrators looked at the past, not the future. He claimed that he had turned the Press around. Nelson said the Press had increased sales 150 percent, added a journal and increased journal subsidies. Personnel costs had been reduced, and a joint operating agreement was pending with the University of Washington Press, he said. |
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