Dr. Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons, believes that the billion-dollar higher education textbook market is poised for a major disruption (check out the link to his talk- it’s fantastic).
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an article detailing financial trouble and changing market demand for a major print textbook publisher:
Publisher’s Bankruptcy Filing Comes as Market for Print Textbooks Shrinks
While this isn’t exactly indicative of the shift toward open education materials that Dr. Green is predicting/hoping for, it does indicate some disruptive paradigm change in this seemingly intractable industry.
*Image by Eric, EJP Photo, Flickr.