Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. But is there any reason to do it? But is there any reason to do it? is a senior tech and policy editor focused on ...

Pearson CEO Andy Bird wants to mint the company’s ebooks as NFTs to maximize its profits, in perhaps the most brazen misuse of the blockchain we’ve seen yet. Turning digital textbooks into NFTs would ...

Texbook publishing giant Pearson will soon be publishing a lot fewer textbooks. On Tuesday it said it’s ending regular revisions of all print textbooks in its higher-education category. As Pearson ...

The CEO of Pearson said NFTs and blockchain provide the potential to track and profit from digital textbooks every time they’re resold. Educational publisher Pearson is considering turning its ...

NFT advocates often tout the technology's ability to grant the creator a cut of second-hand sales as one of its major attributes. Artists can earn from one of their digital creations years after first ...

Pearson Education announced Thursday that it would create digital versions of about 100 of its top-selling college textbooks for the fall of 2001. Pearson’s push into digital textbooks is significant ...

Pearson Education, a leading textbook publisher, announced late last month that it would offer online versions of hundreds of its textbooks this fall at half the cost of the printed versions. The move ...

Every time Britney publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox! Enter your email By clicking “Sign up”, you agree to receive emails from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the publishing industry and its digital innovations. A University of Colorado student counts her money after selling ...