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yellowjacket

10/05/06 9:28 PM

#92154 RE: streetstylz #92150

The "other" publisher in town owns Prentice-Hall, the company publishing the upcoming textbook with the qode case study in it. The parent company of P-H is Pearson plc (PSO on the NYSE). You might want to spend some time here...

http://www.pearson.com/index.cfm?pageid=2

...checking out Pearson Education, Financial Times Group, and Penguin Group. Pearson is a very large media company. Not as big as Newscorp, but certainly a major player in its areas of expertise.

From the recent NEOM press release:

"Mr. Szatkowski said that making "Marketing: Real People, Reach Choices" the first truly interactive text book is being viewed by Prentice Hall as a pilot program in its internal evaluation of interactive text books."

http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2006/20060928.jsp

Some sort of deal involving Pearson/Pearson sub(s) would not surprise me if the "internal evaluation" of the "pilot program" goes well. There exists so much potential for live links and video clips in the textbook/teaching environment. Can't you just imagine millions of students around the world being required to download qode to complete their homework assignments? Nice....YJ.