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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
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Most notably, an increasing number of authors
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