MyLabs
MyLabs are Pearson’s revolutionary digital homework and assessment programmes which are now available in almost 50 countries around the world.
They use software which automatically grades a student’s answers and immediately provides feedback to isolate difficult concepts. The MyLabs today cover around 40 of the most popular courses in Higher Education. In 2008 more than 4.3 million students registered for MyLab programmes around the world.
VangoNotes
A partnership between Pearson and Audible, Inc., VangoNotes are downloadable chapter reviews tied to Pearson textbooks.
Spanning the entire higher education curriculum, VangoNotes work on all MP3 players, and include ‘need to know’ concepts for each area of study; practice tests and audio flashcards to help review key ideas and terms.
College bestsellers
Pearson Education publishes a wealth of college textbooks on topics from marketing to algebra.
Many have gained international acclaim, including Campbell’s Biology, Kotler’s Principles of Marketing which is available in Dutch, French and other languages, and Berk and DeMarzo’s Corporate Finance which has been adopted by universities in Denmark, France and many other countries.
Rough Guides
Rough Guides, the travel book series published by Penguin, has entered the digital age in a big way: its content is available everywhere from mobile phones to the seatback screens in Singapore Airlines’s new double-decker Airbus jumbo jets.
Blockbusters
Penguin’s recent blockbusters in the US have included Patricia Cornwell’s Scarpetta, Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
In the UK Penguin published the new James Bond novel, Devil May Care, by author Sebastian Faulks, to coincide with the centenary of the birth of original Bond writer Ian Fleming. It became the fastest-selling hardback fiction title in Penguin UK’s history.
