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eTextbooks
Driving the future of education
William Chesser
Matt Harris
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Changing Face of the Music Business
•The music industry is not in the business of producing music, but producing CDs.
•Are you in the content or textbook business?
•The business of producing CDs is coming to an end. As the container changes, so do the business models.
•How will you choose to manage the options you have as your containers change?
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists and Megastars, Wired Magazine, Issue 16.01
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Content drives the platform decision
•Music is a social experience by nature. Technology allowed us to capture the social event of music for distribution.
•Content designed for teaching and learning is most effective in a social environment.
•How will technologies allow us to fully utilize the true nature of this type of content? “Add value”
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What factors are effecting the transition?
Music IndustryMusic Industry Textbook IndustryTextbook Industry•Recording costs have dropped to zero
•Manufacturing costs have dropped the sales break even point to almost nothing
•XML has provided the ability to separate/distinguish content from presentation
•Proliferation of digital ready sales channels
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Emerging models: music industry
• Artist Equity Stake• Standard Distribution Deal• License Deal• Profit-sharing• Manufacturing & Distribution Deal• Self-distribution Model
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists and Megastars, Wired Magazine, Issue 16.01
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Student Infrastructure
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The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, Volume 6, 2007, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research
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Key Findings
• 98.4% of students own computers
• 73.7% of these are lap tops
• 64.0% of student entering university own a lap top less than 1 year old
• 52.4% never bring the lap top to class
• 25.0% bring lap top to class regularly
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, Volume 6, 2007, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research
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Sizing the market
• 2006-7 US textbooks sales: $6.5 billion
• Textbook units sold US: 130 million
• Units sales growth since 2002: flat
• Per-unit consumer cost growth since 2002: 18%
• Percentage currently selling as digital: <1%
• Conversion to digital in 2008: 2%? 3%?
Source: NACS, http://nacs.org/public/research/higher_ed_retail.asp8
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Key market forces• College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of
annual inflation over the last two decades (tuition has risen more)
• Since December of 1986, textbook prices have nearly tripled
• Ave. cost of books and supplies per student at 4-year public institutions for academic year 2003-2004 was $898 (more than 25% of the cost of tuition and fees).
• At 2-year public institutions per student cost for books and supplies was $886 (representing almost 75% of the cost of tuition and fees)
• Used text sales as percentage of textbook sales: 30-40%
• Used text sales as a percent of all campus store sales: 20%
Source: NACS, http://nacs.org/public/research/higher_ed_retail.asp9
Search
Bookmarking Social networks
Try-before-buy
Online + Download
Sharing
Emerging e-textbook value proposition
Price
Printing
timePast
Present
Future
P+E
(from MHHE)
Multimedia
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Emerging Models: Textbook Industry• Direct to consumer
– Digital only (whole and partial)– P+E– Publishers site– 3rd party
• Traditional/bookstore channels– Digital only– P+E
• Institutional– Bulk sales– Institutional wide licensing
• Integrated into learning system or self-assessment platform
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Sales Options
Product Product TypeType
License License TermsTerms
Business Business ModelsModels ChannelsChannels
Whole title Perpetual B-to-C Retail
Individual chapters
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B-to-BWholesale
Distribution
Reference Expire on X date Print + Digital Fulfillment
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Retail Sales
Product TypeProduct Type License TermsLicense Terms Business Business ModelsModels ChannelsChannels
Whole title Perpetual B-to-C Retail
Individual chapters
X days from redemption
B-to-BWholesale
Distribution
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LMS Support
Product TypeProduct Type License TermsLicense Terms Business Business ModelsModels ChannelsChannels
Whole title Perpetual B-to-C Retail
Individual chapters
X days from redemption
B-to-BWholesale
Distribution
Reference Expire on X date Print + Digital Fulfillment
Standard collection
Examination Copies
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Special or Institutional Sales
Product TypeProduct Type License TermsLicense Terms Business Business ModelsModels ChannelsChannels
Whole title Perpetual B-to-C Retail
Individual chapters
X days from redemption
B-to-BWholesale
Distribution
Reference Expire on X date Print + Digital Fulfillment
Standard collection
Examination Copies
Custom collection LMS support
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Summary slide
• Textbooks are behind music industry in moving to digital…but not too far
• Textbooks are moving first and fastest w/i publishing
• The market is ready:–End users–Stakeholders (faculty and schools)–Channels partners
• XML is a key (and liberating) componentQuickTime™ and a
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Q & A
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