The open text movement is gonna kill em, as well it should. Their business model is outdated and being eaten by the real experts: the educators who are starting to figure out that you don’t need to be a professor to make great content. Thank you Apple iBooks Author for kickstarting that movement!—TBH
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Inc has reached a deal with more than 70 percent of its creditors to cut $3.1 billion in debt as it faces a lagging textbook market due to drops in educational funding. The publisher said it plans to restructure through a pre-packaged, court-supervised Chapter 11 bankruptcy.