Presentation 2021-03-06
Case report of university textbooks published by MyISBN, a print-on-demand service
Yukihiro Sada, Koji Yamada,
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Abstract(in English) When university faculty members want to publish textbooks that they use in their classes, they often publish at their own expense. It requires an initial investment of hundreds of thousands to millions of yen, and faces inventory risk and disposal risk due to obsolescence of contents. We will introduce an example published by MyISBN, a self-funded publishing print-on-demand service that can overcome this problem. Next, we will consider the issues related to print-on-demand publishing that were raised in previous research. The second author published a textbook to be used in university classes using MyISBN. We published books with an initial investment of several thousand yen, hedged the risk of inventory and disposal, and published more than 1,000 books from 2013 to 2020. As far as textbooks are concerned, the publication of books using MyISBN is thought to lead to the solution of many of the problems shown in previous studies.
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Keyword(in English) Print-on-demand / MyISBN / Textbook / Self-publishing
Paper # ET2020-56
Date of Issue 2021-02-27 (ET)

Conference Information
Committee ET
Conference Date 2021/3/6(1days)
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Place (in English) Online
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Logical Thinking Ability and Programming Education, etc.
Chair Hideyuki Suzuki(Ibaraki Univ.)
Vice Chair Yasuhiro Fujihara(Hyogo College of Medicine)
Secretary Yasuhiro Fujihara(Soka Univ.)
Assistant Ryo Oonuma(Fukushima Univ.) / Sho Yamamoto(Kinki Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Educational Technology
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Case report of university textbooks published by MyISBN, a print-on-demand service
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Print-on-demand
Keyword(2) MyISBN
Keyword(3) Textbook
Keyword(4) Self-publishing
1st Author's Name Yukihiro Sada
1st Author's Affiliation Design Egg Incorporated(Design Egg Inc.)
2nd Author's Name Koji Yamada
2nd Author's Affiliation Osaka Sangyo University(Osaka Sangyo Univ.)
Date 2021-03-06
Paper # ET2020-56
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) ET-424
Page pp.pp.29-32(ET),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2021-02-27 (ET)