(Trigger warning for any of you production department employees out there—this story gets into some very anxiety-inducing territory.) The southern Indian state of Kerala recently saw a violent clash between… Read more »

Textbooks. They’re heavy, expensive, and omnipresent, and they’re chained to education, which makes their demand fairly inelastic. And as we’ve previously covered, this makes them a fairly attractive object of… Read more »

If you’re like me, which is to say an American, your entire conception of the British primary and secondary education system is probably from books, movies and television. And what… Read more »

When the exploration of the natural sciences become a content-ready package, an interesting and exotic morsel you might hear on Radiolab or see paired with an unsourced photo on Facebook,… Read more »

The Hunstville Times reports on an instructor recent running afoul of the authorities at the University of Alabama. Charles Christopher Horton was indicted on a felony ethics charge for requiring… Read more »

Let’s begin with a short quiz: Do you like power? Do you also like ignorance? Do you enjoy imposing your arbitrary wishes and paranoid half-opinions on the population of the… Read more »

You may remember when we reported on the fake Scholastic textbook scam, in which schools received phony invoices from “Scholastic School Supply LLC” for books they hadn’t actually purchased. The Daily… Read more »

For a company that’s won the coveted F rating from the Better Business Bureau, Scholastic School Supply isn’t giving up their dreams to scam money out of schools nationwide. They’re… Read more »

Following the field of textbook costs has been like watching the Titanic heading for the iceberg for a long time now. It’s a giant teetering business model that appears to… Read more »

In a last-ditch attempt to compete with online piracy, a new textbook rental service in Australia is planning to roll out delivery drones bring textbooks to students in as little… Read more »