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Universities, lecturers, and students are faced with a plethora of choice when it comes to courseware, choices that both complement and replace the traditional textbook. The future role of university booksellers will be to provide the best discovery, delivery, and evaluation tools to help lecturers and students choose and get the most benefit from their learning resources. Whilst booksellers will continue to offer a retail presence for students, their business model will evolve and become more reliant on services and software revenues from universities.
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Lake, P. (2016). The Future of the Academic Book: The Role of Booksellers. In: Lyons, R.E., Rayner, S.J. (eds) The Academic Book of the Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137595775_12
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