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ERIC Number: EJ408025
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
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Corporate Mergers in the Publishing Industry: Helpful or Intrusive?
Rudman, Herbert C.
Educational Researcher, v19 n1 p21,24-27 Jan-Feb 1990
Examines the effects of corporate mergers in the publishing industry on the publishing of textbooks and standardized tests. Concludes that restructuring, acquisitions, and mergers have an intrusive effect on established practices of academic publishing and may severely limit the access of scholars to the academic marketplace. (FMW)
Descriptors: Business, Business Administration, Economic Research, Free Enterprise System, Publishing Industry, Standardized Tests, Test Construction, Textbook Publication, Textbook Standards
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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