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Digital asset pricing in the textbook market
The U.S. college textbook market is in the midst of a seismic shift: publishers are creating new products, students are demanding more sophisticated digital content and instructors are just beginning to experiment with easily customizable, low-cost "open" textbooks. Although this industry has been …
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Improving the textbook exchange system at MIT
Textbooks have become one of the biggest expenses of a college education. We attempt to solve this problem by providing students with better information and tools to facilitate book exchange. More specifically, we focus on the subproblem of using technology to build an effective local textbook …
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Revision Cycles For Economics Textbooks: An Application of the Theory of Durable Goods Monopoly
<p>In this dissertation, I study economics textbook markets as an example of durable goods monopoly. Textbooks are protected by copyrights, and from a student's point of view, different textbooks are not good substitutes because students wish to use the textbook adopted by their instructors. …