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“ We found there wasn ’ t the network infrastructure to support all this digital delivery . There was an ongoing request and requirement for printed material – as the digital curriculum develops it is supplemented with print , and the print component has continued to grow pretty dramatically . We are working with the most advanced clients and publishers in that space , at the school and college level , including the providers of open educational resource ( OER ) material such as California State University ’ s MERLOT project , which publish low-cost printed books to supplement online content ,” Shea adds .
OpenStax , a nonprofit edtech initiative based at Rice University makes textbooks available in free digital formats and at a low cost in print . LSC prints a significant number of these core textbooks , mostly at the freshman and sophomore level , which sell at a fraction of the cost of the mainstream equivalents . “ Open- Stax has really changed the economics of making printed material available to students ,” he explains . All of these initiatives benefit from LSC ’ s unrivaled digital print capacity . Even more importantly though , the very complexity and immediacy they have brought to the University Press underlines the need for the comprehensive service platform the company
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