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Article: Publisher enters new chapter in textbooks ; Houghton sells $40m high-tech teaching system
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of the oldest publishers in the
United States, plans to unveil today the biggest deal in its
history: a $40 million, multiyear contract with Detroit public
schools. But this is not the typical agreement to sell a textbook to
every student.
Instead, Houghton will be providing a computer-based teaching
system it developed with Microsoft Corp. that will connect teachers,
students, and administrators. It's a radical shift away from the
classic textbook publishing model and represents an industry
transformation, as technology supplants books.
"The textbook is no longer the center of the educational
universe," said Wendy Colby, a senior vice president at Houghton, ...