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Similar to the issue of re-importation of pharmaceuticals into the US market, the GAO report[4] also highlights a similar phenomenon in textbook distribution:
Retailers and publishers have also been concerned that some U.S. retailers may have engaged in reimportation on a large scale by ordering textbooks for entire courses at lower prices outside the United States were:
Pearson Education (including such imprints as Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall)
Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning)
McGraw-Hill
Houghton Mifflin (including Harcourt)
In addition, other large publishers include:
EMC Paradigm
John Wiley & Sons
Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing Group
F. A. Davis Company
W. W. Norton & Company
Technological advances are constantly changing America’s higher education landscape, including textbooks. Online and digital materials are making it increasingly easy for students to access materials other than the traditional print textbook. Students now have access to electronic and PDF books, online tutoring systems and video lectures.
Most notably, an increasing number of authors
