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College tuition is expensive enough on its own, but college textbooks make the financial burden even more unbearable. Pearson Education — the British publishing company responsible for a huge portion ...

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 ...

Pearson, one of the largest textbook publishers, is looking at technology to improve its business. Moving to the blockchain and NFTs would give Pearson some sales from resold textbooks, its CEO said.

Pearson is offering textbook rentals at up to 1,500 independent campus bookstores through a new deal with indiCo — the first partnership that allows on-campus bookstores to participate in the textbook ...

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 ...

British-owned education publishing company Pearson announced the creation of a new platform-- Pearson+ -- that will attempt to offer students more financially flexible ways to access college textbooks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pearson, one of the largest textbook publishers, is looking at technology to improve its business. Moving to the blockchain and ...

A University of Colorado student counts her money after selling back her textbooks to the university bookstore. (Photo by Jeremy Papasso/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images) ...

Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales Textbook publisher Pearson plans to profit from secondhand sales by turning ...

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 ...