Im tired of hearing the lies of “we want them in our online platform for deeper learning”. ALL of these publishers (whom are not edtech as they claim) are always a day late and a dollar short on the market.
They’ve had no clue what they are doing ever since iPhones and Amazon came into the picture 20 years ago - zero plan to combat reselling of textbooks, buying codes wherever, cheating the system, etc. I was stunned to see webassign and mindtap looking no different than 15+ years ago. Zero innovation, just let’s move some bar graphs and make changes to page numbers to force professors to move to a new edition and “reinvent” the package.
Slimy and scammy sales. Ponzi scheme material. The first publishing company to live in reality and invest in good publishing content instead of lying saying they are edtech wins. Cengage touring customer satisfaction is genuinely hilaurous when your bar is set by Pearson or MGH. These professors are beholden to essentially the big 3 and it’s a matter of picking who’s sh-t stinks the least, all are cr-ppy products/companies. Get out and get into REAL sales or product/marketing job with a real company. This is sl-------l city. Helping students prepare for the workforce - all the LOLz with that. All they care ab is a student activation and making sure they don’t buy a used textbook.