What does the Digital Marketplace do to reduce the total cost to the student of their education content on a course-by-course basis?
The high cost of commercial content, principally printed textbooks, has become a key area concern for institutions. For more background on textbook affordability and the Digital Marketplace at CSU, visit this resource: http://www.calstate.edu/PA/news/2007/textbook.shtml . The Digital Marketplace reduces the cost of learning resources to the student by performing the following: • Commercial publisher content can be discovered and purchased through Digital Marketplace applications in a one-stop, convenient process accessed through current applications. • Demand can be aggregated via the Digital Marketplace for the purpose of realizing cost savings for individual students. • Both commercial publishers and institutions can experiment with new business models for digital content in the hope of identifying “win-win” approaches that reduce cost or increase value, or both. • The Digital Marketplaces offers just-in-time access to the latest offers from commercial vendors.
