{"id":46158,"date":"2019-07-16T08:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=46158"},"modified":"2019-07-16T08:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:25:03","slug":"pearson-textbook-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=46158","title":{"rendered":"Pearson Textbook goes digital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By HAILEY CHAPMAN<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powerhouse of the textbook industry, Pearson has announced that in the upcoming semester, it will be going digital. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2006, the cost of textbooks has increased by 88%, and it is no secret that can significantly hinder the success of a student without access to these resources. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pearson is looking to change for the better. While steps have been taken for more than a decade, the company believes this year will be pivotal in its online resources. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than advertising textbooks for hundreds of dollars, Pearson believes it can drop prices as low as $10, depending on the book. Nursing and science students will continue to see prices on the higher end; however, the days of dropping thousands each semester for Pearson consumers appear to be over. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be options to rent online ebooks for $40, order a physical textbook for $60, or purchase a \u201cdigital suite of resources\u201d for $80.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to kick the advancements into high gear follows the merger of McGraw-Hill and Cengage, now the second best selling textbook company behind Pearson.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The transition is projected to secure Pearson\u2019s position as the textbook giant for years to come. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HAILEY CHAPMAN Powerhouse of the textbook industry, Pearson has announced that in the upcoming semester, it will be going digital. From 2006, the cost&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3398,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pearson.jpg?fit=629%2C364&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46161,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46158\/revisions\/46161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}