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Textbook merger could create more problems than just higher prices

  • Written by Naomi S. Baron, Professor of Linguistics Emerita, American University
Textbook prices could rise higher if a planned textbook company merger goes through.Prostock-studio/Shutterstock.com

Ever since Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education – two of the largest textbook publishers in the U.S. – announced plans to merge next year, fears have arisen that lack of competition in America’s textbook industry will...

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