June 4, 1999
Moving Beyond Textbook Sales, Harcourt Plans to Open a For-Profit University
The company that owns Harcourt Brace and Bergdorf Goodman will soon be marketing a new product -- college degrees. It is creating an independent university that plans to offer all of its courses via distance-education technologies.
A number of academic publishers now offer not just textbooks but also interactive software, World-Wide Web sites, and other curricular products. But Harcourt General, Harcourt
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