McGraw Hill Education, one of the world's largest textbook publishers, has just been bought by Apollo for $2.5 billion. My comments on the potential implications of this move for open access and open education, and links, can be found here: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/11/one-of-worlds-giant-textbook-publishers.html
Heather G. Morrison, PhD Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal