The Kortext blog

Welcome to the Kortext blog, where you’ll discover insights, opinions and interviews from across the higher education sector.

2021 – The Kortext Reading Review

2021 – The Kortext Reading Review

Have you ever wondered what media Dave, the peculiar person you follow on Instagram, has consumed the most this year? No, we haven’t either, yet we indulge in finding out about their media consumption habits because human curiosity gets the best of us.  We were...

Kortext Winter Webinar 2021

Kortext Winter Webinar 2021

In the final weeks of what has been a whirlwind of a year, we’re looking ahead to 2022 and what the next semester holds for higher education.  Last week, we held Kortext’s final webinar of 2021 based on a recent open letter to the Publishers Association.  The letter...

We’re back on campus!

We’re back on campus!

As students around the world have been making the move back to campuses in their thousands, Kortext staff have slowly been doing the same. Hussein Elkady, Kortext’s Business Development Director for EMEA conducted his first on-campus visit since the pandemic took...

Kortext will see you at Education World Forum!

Kortext will see you at Education World Forum!

Isn't this year flying by? We can't believe it's time for us to gear up for 2022’s Education World Forum (EWF).   From Sunday 22nd – Wednesday 25th May, we’ll be joining education and skills ministers from over 100 countries at the event which strives to address the...

Where next for the eTextbook market?

Where next for the eTextbook market?

Wonkhe asked a librarian, a former publisher, and an aggregator about what’s currently happening in the world of digital learning resources.

The first rule of book club is…

The first rule of book club is…

Prior to the pandemic, when you heard the term ‘book club’, you would think of a group of people who know each other IRL (in real life), talking about physical books, whilst physically present, however, that’s all changed.  Although book clubs aren’t entirely new,...