CourseSmart LLC is a new venture founded and supported by five higher education textbook publishers

CourseSmart LLC is a new venture founded and supported by five higher education textbook publishers. Our mission is to improve teaching and learning by providing instructors and students better exposure and access to digital course materials.
CourseSmart brings together thousands of textbooks across hundreds of courses in an ebook format on a common platform. In doing so we provide a number of unique benefits to instructors, students, partners and institutions.
* For instructors, CourseSmart provides instant access to review and compare textbooks and course materials in their discipline area without the time, cost, and environmental impact of mailing print exam copies.
* CourseSmart allows students to find their assigned textbook as an eTextbook at savings that average 51% versus the print version.
* For many students, the value of CourseSmart is in the web functionality. Search, instant access, note taking, and a lighter backpack are some of the benefits of an eTextbook that excite students. For more student comments on the CourseSmart eTextbook, check out "What Students are Saying."
* Partners and institutions that partner with CourseSmart benefit from having a large selection of eTextbooks available in a common format from a single provider. CourseSmart is an ideal partner for those looking to lower the total cost of education and open new opportunities through a more "wired" campus.
CourseSmart Partners
Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (http://eps.bvdep.com/)
CourseSmart is built on a custom platform that was developed by Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing. Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing specializes in adding value to data supplied by world-renowned organizations and creating easy-to-use, flexible, state-of-the-art information solutions. The custom platform that Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing created for CourseSmart features relevance-ranked searching, contextualized results presentations and secure textbook rendering.
Nebraska Book Company (http://www.nebook.com/)
CourseSmart has developed a relationship with Nebraska Book Company, identifying them as the preferred affiliate for supporting individual college stores looking to offer CourseSmart eTextbooks. Nebraska Book Company now distributes CourseSmart eTextbooks seamlessly through their digital delivery platform for bookstores – NBC Jumpbooks® (www.jumpbooks.com ). Nebraska Book Company began in 1915 with a single bookstore near the University of Nebraska campus and now serves more than 2.1 million students through its network of approximately 265 stores located across the country. Their Textbook Division serves more than 2,500 bookstores through the sale of over seven million textbooks, and their Complementary Services Division has installed more than 1,600 technology platforms and e-commerce sites.
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