Is this the same state that by power of ordering the most number of text books and forcing publishers to include or exclude (by whim of a conservative minded committee) what materials to publish gets to draw up the 'standard' educational text books for the nation?
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.
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Is this the same state that by power of ordering the most number of text books and forcing publishers to include or exclude (by whim of a conservative minded committee) what materials to publish gets to draw up the 'standard' educational text books for the nation?
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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.
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Prince Edward Island appears to be under the limit, however.