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Textbook publishing mergers

Mergers and joint ventures between major textbook publishers in the 1980s and 1990s

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Feb 7, 2026

How did Robert Maxwell’s ownership of Macmillan influence the U.S. textbook market in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

’s 1988 purchase of and the 1989 joint venture reshaped market concentration in K–12 publishing by creating one of the country’s largest textbook suppliers and intensifying competition for state adopt...

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