Harcourt Sale Would Spawn Big 3 of Texts: Deal May Make Houghton Leader in K-12 Publishing

Autor/inn/en	Trotter, Andrew; Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy
Titel	Harcourt Sale Would Spawn Big 3 of Texts: Deal May Make Houghton Leader in K-12 Publishing
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2007) 44, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Publishing Industry; Textbooks; Elementary Secondary Education; Organizational Change; Electronic Publishing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Organisationswandel; Elektronisches Publizieren
Abstract	Reed Elsevier's recently announced plans to spin off its Harcourt educational publishing divisions to the Houghton Mifflin Co. would complete a consolidation of most K-12 publishing in the United States into a new Big Three. If federal regulators allow the deal to go through, school districts that annually buy textbooks from the three companies--Pearson Education Inc., the McGraw-Hill Cos., and Houghton Mifflin with its newly acquired Harcourt units--would likely see little change over the next few years, analysts of the educational publishing market agreed. For the longer term, experts differ over whether the consolidation would speed--or slow--the ongoing transition to greater use of digital-based curriculum materials currently taking place in K-12 education. Pearson Education is currently the industry leader in U.S. education publishing, experts said. Depending on how size is measured, the latest deal could vault Houghton Mifflin to the top of the K-12 portion of that market. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10