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Rising price of textbooks reaches a tipping point

Published: 17 May 2016

Jochen Wirtz is pleased to describe himself as a best-selling writer. He has co-authored a textbook on services marketing that he not only uses as professor at the National University of Singapore Business School, butwhichhas sold more than 700,000 copies.

MBA course organisers at McGill University’sDesautels Faculty of Managementhave made a policy of replacing “wherever possible” paper textbooks with electronic versions, which only contain the chapters that will be necessary for the students. To facilitate this, all Desautels’ MBA students are issued with an iPad during their orientation.

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