Sentences with phrase «say textbook companies»

This is not to say textbook companies are in the business of writing skewed versions of history, science or math, but rather that students are provided with one viewpoint on the subject.

Diskey said textbook companies have been working on the technology for the past five to eight years to transform the industry, but that in many cases, schools simply aren't ready.

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«We really struggled with what the product would look like — we were initially putting it together as a supplemental product that we sell to schools, but then it became clear that it made more sense for us to partner directly with publishers to take advantage of their existing sales and distribution networks and help them transform their existing products into the next generation products that people would be expecting on iPads,» says Derek Lomas, CEO of Mathify, a company that partners with textbook publishers to create interactive learning material.

«Every CEO needs time to have their full vision articulated and understood,» said Dan Rosensweig, a former Yahoo chief operating officer, who now serves as CEO of online textbook rental company Chegg.com.

You have activist stockholders such as Carl Icahn pressuring Apple and other companies to actually borrow — not borrow to invest as the textbooks say, but to buy back their own shares.

Christine Quinn City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, running in the Democratic primary, highlighted the challenge of affordable housing which she says is a big concern for the CEOs of companies from all backgrounds, and the need to improve education through an emphasis on literacy and offering tablets instead of textbooks.

The 174 - year - old Boston - based textbook company will merge with the 11 - year - old Dublin, Ireland - based software company under the name Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group PLC, when the deal becomes final by year's end, a Houghton Mifflin spokesman said.

Online education companies say they are no different from textbook publishers and other businesses that profit from sales to schools.

It is ironic, to say the least, that since ringing the bell to open the «School of the Future,» Vallas has blown through New Orleans, Haiti and Chile and has now joined us in Bridgeport, while former Microsoft VP Mary Cullinane, who developed a school with Vallas that didn't use textbooks, is now a corporate officer with the company that Vallas is buying his standardized tests and textbooks from.

«We don't even want to be called a textbook company anymore,» says Kate Miller, a company spokesperson.

«We don't even want to be called a textbook company anymore,» she said.

On other occasions, students would double - check our facts: «Mr. Criswell told us... But you said...» This interchange led to interesting dialogue about perceptions of what students had heard in one class or the other and how history is interpreted by readers, writers, textbook companies, teachers, and students.

Using Kindle books, students no longer need to carry heavy textbooks, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

«Today, Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental — now students can save up to 80 % off textbook list prices by renting from the Kindle Store,» the company said -LSB-...]

In two years, the global market for college textbooks — which are primarily still published in paper form — will reach more than $ 4 billion, meaning there's great potential for companies that want to get involved in sales of e-textbooks, Weiner said.

«Today, Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental — now students can save up to 80 % off textbook list prices by renting from the Kindle Store,» the company said in a press release.

The company says it's working on something that could help to solve that problem, but for now it's satisfied with focusing on the multibillion digital book, magazine, and textbook market.

As noted above, the company says deferred income from textbook rentals also affected its earnings per share, «the majority of which will be realized in the fourth quarter.»

As Pearson — along with the entire textbook publishing industry — rethinks its role in education, one of the company's executives says it could look to build the core competencies of digital content creators like video game giant Electronic Arts.