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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 ...

Education publishing company Pearson is looking to make money every time people resell its expensive college textbooks — by turning those textbooks into digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In other ...

The CEO of Pearson said NFTs and blockchain provide the potential to track and profit from digital textbooks every time they’re resold. Educational publisher Pearson is considering turning its ...

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 ...

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Pearson Education has agreed to settle a lawsuit with two textbook authors who claimed the company was failing to pay proper royalties. First filed in October of 2014 by professors Lawrence J. Gitman ...