Eight publishers sign deals with CourseSmart

SAGE, Edinburgh University Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Gill & Macmillan, CAB International, Goodfellow Publishers and WW Norton have signed deals with digital textbook company CourseSmart. These new partnerships should increase the number of digital textbooks and online course materials available to students and faculty.

This brings the count of CourseSmart’s international publishing members to over 13. Each publisher aims to add the majority of their best selling and core front list titles in time for the new academic year in September 2012. CourseSmart’s international catalogue of university textbooks is now said to be over 4,000.