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CourseSmart was founded in 2007 by the higher education publishers Macmillan, Cengage Learning, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson. [1] CourseSmart offered access to e-textbooks via web browser from its foundation in 2007. The company allowed readers to rent e-books, rather than buying physical textbooks at an increased cost. [2]
Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, also known as MEDAL, is an advanced learner's dictionary published from 2002 until 2023 [1] by Macmillan Education.It shares most of the features of this type of dictionary: it provides definitions in simple language, using a controlled defining vocabulary; most words have example sentences to illustrate how they are typically used; and ...
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the "Big Five" English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
McGraw Hill is an American learning science company that provides educational content, software, and services for students and educators across various levels—from K-12 to higher education and professional settings. They produce textbooks, digital learning tools, and adaptive technology to enhance learning experiences and outcomes.
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources. The company is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States, [2] west of Detroit.It has been a division of Cengage since 2007.
I am a student at University of Maryland, College Park, so I have access to anything in UMD's libraries, and I can request inter-library loan, especially from other schools in the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) and/or the Big Ten Academic Alliance.
In April 2017, as the market for access to digital resources continued to accelerate both in the U.S. and around the world, VitalSource announced the acquisition of Verba Software, Inc. [15] Founded in 2008 by Ryan Peterson and Jared Pearlman to help college students save money on textbooks, Verba grew to provide several web-based services ...
By 1960, the majority of Macmillan's sales came from textbooks [41] [47] [48] and for Macmillan the merger meant access to cash and capital to grow their textbook market. [41] Crowell-Collier ran Macmillan as a subsidiary but in 1965 Crowell-Collier officially changed its name to Crowell Collier & Macmillan, Inc. [ 49 ] Publishing was dropped ...