Web Development
December 18, 2015 at 1:13 pm
Richard Price always had an entrepreneurial bent. He started a cake business in his mum's kitchen during a summer break from his doctoral program at Oxford, eventually converting it into a sandwich-delivery service after realizing people only ate cake once a week. Then, when one of his philosophy papers took three years to get published,…
December 18, 2015 at 1:09 pm
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced it will close its consumer book recommendation site My Independent Bookshop ahead of the launch of its new website next year. PRH launched My Independent Bookshop in May 2014 as a social platform that allowed readers to set up ‘virtual bookshops’, where they could share their favourite reads and…
December 8, 2015 at 3:16 pm
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. and FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.—December 7, 2015—A pilot program to offer accredited private high school diplomas and career certificates is now available online at 11 public library systems across Florida. The Career Online High School project is brought to residents in selected communities by the State of Florida and is administered by Smart Horizons…
November 23, 2015 at 1:42 pm
One could be forgiven for believing that MOOCs had simply faded away. When they first came on the scene, MOOCs — Massive Open Online Courses — were widely and wildly predicted to be about to change the world, and they would do this in three to four weeks. The high cost of higher education would…
November 23, 2015 at 12:02 pm
DENVER—November 23, 2015—Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, today announced the first module of Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library, the first major text-searchable online archive of pre-20th century Arabic printed books. Module One, which includes a wealth of content on Islamic literature, law and other religious items, is part of Gale’s ongoing…
November 17, 2015 at 2:47 pm
Bestselling author Lewis Howes was once a professional football player, until a broken wrist ended his career early. But since then, Howes has launched a multi-million-dollar business and hosts a leadership and personal development podcast called The School of Greatness. Last month, Rodale Books published his book by the same name, and this week the…
November 5, 2015 at 2:52 pm
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—November 5, 2015—The California State Library and Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, today announced a statewide pilot program to offer accredited high school diplomas and career certificates at more than 30 libraries across California. The program is funded by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and is aimed at helping as many Californians as…
November 3, 2015 at 2:38 pm
On the heels of subscription platform launches from Disney and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, German publisher Bastei Lübbe has announced the development of its own subscription service, oolipo. The international streaming service is built from the foundation of Bastei Lübbe’s ebook store “beam,” and shares bite-sized, serial content geared toward mobile readers. The subscription service is…
October 21, 2015 at 2:28 pm
NEW YORK—October 21, 2015—Global learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), a leading provider of pre-K-12 education content, services, and technology solutions, announced today the launch of Curious World™, an interactive content service that offers an expanding collection of games, videos, and eBooks mapped to key early learning areas. Available initially as an app for iPad®…
October 21, 2015 at 2:05 pm
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co. said Wednesday it is launching its Curious World website and updated app, which includes educational videos, games, and ebooks for kids between the ages of 3 and 7. The Boston-based publisher first introduced Curious World in November 2014 with a “simple app” that was free to download and included in-app purchases,…
