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IDG Books purchased CliffsNotes in 1998 for $14.2 million. John Wiley & Sons acquired IDG Books (renamed Hungry Minds) in 2001. In 2011, CliffsNotes announced a joint venture with Mark Burnett, a TV producer, to create a series of 60-second video study guides of literary works. [3] In 2012, CliffsNotes was acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [1]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Study guide from Permacharts. Academic support centers in schools often develop study guides for their students, as do for-profit companies and individual students and professors. Once only found at local five and dime stores the internet brought about a new era of online sites with study material.
Bookrags has provided a One Child Summary & Study Guide for educational purposes. [5] Reviewing the book for the Australian Journal of Human Communication Disorders, Mandy Brent concluded that "this book is an interesting but undeveloped narrative and is of limited use to the practising clinician" . [6]
Alpha Books, publisher of the Complete Idiot's Guides, is a member of Penguin Group. It began as a division of Macmillan. Pearson Education acquired Macmillan General Reference (MGR) from Simon & Schuster in 1998 and retained the line while the rest of MGR was sold to IDG Books. [1] Alpha moved from Pearson Education to Penguin Group in 2003 ...
The books are an example of a media franchise, consistently sporting a distinctive cover—usually yellow and black with a triangular-headed cartoon figure known as the "Dummies Man", and an informal, blackboard-style logo. Prose is simple and direct; bold icons, such as a piece of string tied around an index finger, are placed in the margin to ...
Pages in category "Study guides" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. B.E.S. Publishing; C.
Anthony Horowitz discovered the Adventure series at age 11, and has cited the series as an influence on his own writing. [8] “ If you read Willard Price," said Horowitz, "you'll find the chemical formula for an Alex Rider book: page-turning, lots of action, lots of activity, good strong characters.” [ 9 ]