College textbook merger raises 'serious concern' among U.S. lawmakers

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Two U.S. lawmakers expressed serious concern on Tuesday about the effect of a pl...

FILE PHOTO: Representative David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S. December 12, 2019. Alex Edelman/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Representatives David Cicilline, chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, and Jan Schakowsky, chair of an Energy and Commerce consumer protection panel, urged the Justice Department to scrutinize the merger to ensure it is legal under antitrust law. “It has also been reported that the merging companies are working to convert the market to all-digital course materials through an ‘inclusive access’ model, in which students are automatically billed for subscription access to textbooks,” the lawmakers wrote.

A spokeswoman for Cengage said: “We continue to have a constructive dialogue ongoing with Department of Justice and other regulators outside the U.S.”

 

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The question is why there books in the electronic age we should ban these books from who publishing education should be free or publishers need to pay super tax for even taking advantage of student and the federal government over pricing the uses less paper books and make um free

does that mean they thought the college textbook scam industry was acceptable before?

🙄 Meanwhile, Medicare Part D continues to cost everyday Americans billions.

The very best professors I had in college simply recommended we all buy a previous edition from Amazon for literally a couple dollars. Very little difference vs current. If there was, they photocopied or emailed us the relevant updated sections for the week. The everyday heroes.

3:20 AM · 11 мар. 2020 г.·True Anthem

Right here’s a lot of the higher ed cost bloat. We need more publishers, not fewer.

College textbooks raise serious concerns all on their own for many reasons not least of which is the LOANS needed to buy the dam things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Ticketmaster feels like these guys are profiteering assholes.

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