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What changed in the books.

We own the books, so we keep them current. Every fix, every new explainer, every capability lands here, in plain words.

July 2026

18 updates
Principles of MarketingJul 22

Pricing: the explainers arrive

Miss a question on price elasticity, markup and margin, anchoring, or the decoy effect and a short film now explains it the way that works for you.

Principles of MarketingJul 22

Services: recovery, start to finish

The service chapter's whole explainer set is live, from the service blueprint to the five service gaps and how to recover a moment that went wrong.

PreparaJul 21

Help opens right away

Opening an explanation now lands in a fraction of a second, where it used to take several. The wait is gone.

PreparaJul 21

The learning intelligence went live

The platform now watches how each student learns and routes the next explanation to the kind that helps them most.

Principles of MarketingJul 20

Consumer decisions, on film

The buyer-behavior chapter's explainers are published, so a missed question turns into a short film instead of the same paragraph again.

Principles of MarketingJul 19

Environment and research explainers

Two more early chapters got their full set of explainer films, each one built and checked question by question.

PreparaJul 18

A calmer results screen

After a checkpoint you now walk your results one question at a time, each with the explanation that fits, instead of a wall of scores.

Principles of MarketingJul 18

Clearer opening explainers

The first chapters' explainer films were rebuilt with clearer narration and a gentle audio cue when the answer arrives.

PreparaJul 18

Your study home

The student dashboard now builds around your lessons and updates from your own progress and what you tell it you prefer.

PreparaJul 18

Grades in one place

For instructors, the lesson gradebook is now the single grades surface, with the offline columns folded in beside it.

Digital MarketingJul 18

Figures load from our own engine

The hand-drawn figures across the digital-marketing book now draw from the platform's own copy, with no outside dependency.

PreparaJul 18

More chapters, more accommodations

The accessibility panel, with high-contrast, large-text, and reduced-motion controls, reached more of the marketing chapters.

PreparaJul 18

Reading on a phone got fixed

In the lesson reader, the explainer video no longer hides behind the floating back button. It was a real report from a real phone.

PreparaJul 18

One way into a class

Registration is now the single path into a course. The old join-code step is gone, so enrollment is simpler.

Principles of MarketingJul 17

Graded lessons for the whole book

Every chapter from the fundamentals onward now has its checkpoint questions authored and checked, so course grades come from the book itself.

PreparaJul 17

Questions students cannot look up

A new kind of checkpoint question went live: each student works from their own numbers, so the answer is not something to search for.

PreparaJul 17

Grades flow to Canvas

When students answer the in-book checkpoints, their scores now sync to a Canvas gradebook in one click.

PreparaJul 16

Lessons went live

Chapters now run as short lessons with graded checkpoints. This is the change everything else builds on.

This page is the proof behind a plain promise: your book does not go out of date. When the field moves, the book moves with it, and the change shows up here.