Warning to Powerful Publishers: Schoolbooks Too Expensive and Poorly Reusable

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Is the school year over? Then all textbooks can go in the trash. It has been quite a few years since high school students still used books…

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The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) is calling on textbook publishers to stop the mandatory linked purchase of a paper and digital version. They must also ensure greater transparency. This is stated in a new study by the ACM, which follows a long discussion regarding the high price and poor reusability of textbooks. Every year, secondary schools purchase approximately 280 million euros worth of digital and paper textbooks. …

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Secondary school students are still too often required to purchase both a paper and a digital version of their textbooks. The Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM), which investigated the malfunctioning market, considers this tied selling a "socially undesirable sales strategy" and calls on publishers to put an end to it. Furthermore, the books are still too often disposable copies. According to the ACM, the supply of reusable textbooks has fa…

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THE HAGUE (ANP) - Secondary school students are still too often required to purchase both a paper and a digital version of their textbooks. The Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM), which investigated the malfunctioning market, considers this tied selling a "socially undesirable sales strategy..."