[identity profile] robertprior.livejournal.com 2012-06-28 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It is.

Although I'm increasingly skeptical of that argument, as Canadian publishers are able to make a profit tailoring textbooks to a single province, which is a lot smaller than all-America-except-Texas.

As an example:
http://www.nelsonschoolcentral.com/cgi-bin/lansaweb?webapp=WSUBDSC+webrtn=subdsc+F(LW3CATURL)=S_S_GENERAL_SCIENCE

Nelson publishes textbooks for just Ontario and just BC. They even publish textbooks for fairly small courses (possibly one section in a bigger school) so very low numbers, but they still manage to be profitable. And there are three other publishers competing for the same markets.

[identity profile] resonant.livejournal.com 2012-06-29 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
The province of Nova Scotia, with an even smaller school population, has custom textbooks as well.

Prince Edward Island appears to be under the limit, however.