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CourseSmart, a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, California, founded in 2007, was a provider of eTextbooks and digital course materials. It was acquired by Ingram Content Group subsidiary VitalSource Technologies in early 2014, and was integrated into the parent company under the VitalSource name and platform by 2016.
VitalSource Technologies is an education technology and digital content company founded in 1994. The company works with companies, universities, and publishers and resellers, providing digital course materials to users. [ 1 ]
In July 2006, Ingram Industries acquired VitalSource Technologies, Inc, [3] which it later sold to Francisco Partners in April 2021. [ 4 ] In June 2014, the company, in conjunction with Hachette Book Group USA and Perseus Books Group , announced that Hachette would buy Perseus, and then sell that company's client services businesses to Ingram ...
[40] [41] [42] Their business model [43] was to offer the open textbook free online, [44] [45] and then sell ancillary products that students are likely to buy if prices are reasonable – print copies, study guides, ePub, .Mobi , PDF download, etc. Flat World Knowledge compensates its authors with royalties on these sales. [46]
Wiley-VCH is a German publisher owned by John Wiley & Sons. It was founded in 1921 as Verlag Chemie (meaning "Chemistry Press": VCH stands for Verlag Chemie [1]) by two German learned societies. Later, it was merged into the German Chemical Society (GDCh). In 1991, VCH acquired Akademie Verlag. It has been owned by John Wiley & Sons since 1996. [2]
On November 17, 2006, John Wiley & Sons announced it had "entered into a definitive agreement to acquire" Blackwell Publishing. [7] The acquisition was completed in February 2007, at a purchase price of £572 million. Blackwell Publishing was merged into Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to create Wiley-Blackwell. [1]
The Hoboken, New Jersey, headquarters. The company was established in 1807 when Charles Wiley opened a print shop in Manhattan.The company was the publisher of 19th century American literary figures like James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as of legal, religious, and other non-fiction titles.
Teresa S. Wiley is the author of Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival, [1] and Sex, Lies and Menopause. [2] She writes about women's health, particularly sleep and hormonal issues, hormone replacement therapy and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy .