{"id":44802,"date":"2014-02-19T12:23:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44802"},"modified":"2014-02-22T16:40:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T21:40:45","slug":"where-is-the-netflix-for-college-textbooks-florez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/02\/19\/where-is-the-netflix-for-college-textbooks-florez\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Netflix for College Textbooks? [Florez]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/higher-education\/159bc47973b0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Where is the Netflix for College Textbooks?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from medium.com by Dean Florez<br \/>\n<em>A $14 Billion Dollar Textbook Industry Unscathed by Tech<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Why not look at an ed-tech solution modeled and offered in trade books by Oyster, Scribd, and Entitle\u2019s eBook subscription platforms which provide access to 100,000 books for as long as you keep a subscription, much like Netflix or Hulu. It seems that as long as you are a student at a university you should have similar access to an educational platform that let\u2019s you access all the textbooks you need and refer back to them as you proceed through your education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Or as an alternative path, textbooks could be offered to students, much like Entitle where you pay a subscription fee and can download a set amount of books a month, but also get to keep them after you cancel your subscription.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/higher-education\/159bc47973b0\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44804\" alt=\"PercentChangeTextbookCosts-1980-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PercentChangeTextbookCosts-1980-2010.jpg\" width=\"593\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PercentChangeTextbookCosts-1980-2010.jpg 593w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PercentChangeTextbookCosts-1980-2010-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"name\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei-ideas.org\/?s=cost+of+textbooks&amp;submit=GO\" target=\"_blank\">Also, see these other postings at the Carpe Diem blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cStudent\u2019s need a Book-of-the-Semester Club.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Addendum on 2\/22\/14:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/text-book-broke-twitter--2014-2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>College Students Are Using Twitter To Protest Ridiculously High Textbook Costs<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from businessinsider.com by Peter Jacobs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is the Netflix for College Textbooks? &#8212; from medium.com by Dean Florez A $14 Billion Dollar Textbook Industry Unscathed by Tech Excerpt: Why not look at an ed-tech solution modeled and offered in trade books by Oyster, Scribd, and Entitle\u2019s eBook subscription platforms which provide access to 100,000 books for as long as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,275,419,180,76,140,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-digital-textbooks","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-open-courseware-and-systems","category-publishing","category-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44802"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44901,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44802\/revisions\/44901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}