Sentence examples for textbook makers from inspiring English sources
But some experts said that publishers of dental textbooks might be better situated than other textbook makers for a transition from print to digital.
Sure, there have been scientists with Professor McAfee's attitude — Jonas Salk was asked who owned the patent to the polio vaccine and scoffed: "Could you patent the sun?" For the textbook makers, however, it is a different story.
The textbook makers almost all on board, from what I was told, but it remains an expensive proposition.
Volley hopes to stay free for students by charging textbook makers, education service providers, and school networks.
Inkling is looking to help textbook makers convert their content into digitized versions that are more than just static reproductions of the original text.
A final similarity, in the words of R. Preston McAfee, an economics professor at Cal Tech, is that both textbook publishers and drug makers benefit from the problem of "moral hazards" — that is, the doctor who prescribes medication and the professor who requires a textbook don't have to bear the cost and thus usually don't think twice about it.
Responses to these questions will give teachers, curriculum makers, and textbook writers a description of what kind of science- and technology-related experiences children bring to school and how these vary between girls and boys, urban and rural, and among diverse cultures (Uitto et al. 2006).
And that, in a nutshell, is a big difference between textbook publishers and the drug makers.
Broussard's first discovery was that state reading tests do not assess what she calls "general knowledge," but rather "specific knowledge contained in specific sets of books: the textbooks created by the test makers".
When Ms. Wachner took over Warnaco in 1986, she pulled off a textbook turnaround, transforming a sleepy bra maker with $400 million in annual revenue into the $2.1 billion apparel giant it is today.
Because there are fewer than 10 publishers of dental textbooks, it may be easier for dental schools and software makers to agree on how to create digital textbooks, industry experts say.
