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Product Development Assets | 12 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2022
Product Development Assets [Abstract] |
Product Development Assets | Note 9 – Product Development Assets Product development assets, net consisted of the following at April 30:
|  | 2022 |  |  | 2021 |
Book composition costs |  | $ | 20,574 |  |  | $ | 20,474 |
Software costs |  |  | 17,479 |  |  |  | 23,262 |
Content development costs |  |  | 3,405 |  |  |  | 5,781 |
Product development assets, net |  | $ | 41,458 |  |  | $ | 49,517 |
Product development assets include $4.4 million and $6.3 million of work-in-process as of April 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. As of April 30, 2022 this is primarily for book composition costs. As of April 30, 2021, this is primarily for book composition costs and, to a lesser extent, software costs. Product development assets are net of accumulated amortization of $269.7 million and $269.0 million as of April 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

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