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==Research Questions==
==Research Questions==
*How is the market distributed?
* What are the 10 biggest for-profit companies in this field?
*Where are they located? Are there any incentives for specific locations?
* How is the market distributed?
*Correlate them with their main outputs  
* Where are they located? Are there any incentives for specific locations?
*Understand and identify cases where these companies are “experimenting” or “adopting” commons-based approaches
* Correlate them with their main outputs (Data, Narratives, Tools)
*Identify these cases and treat them as entities that will also be placed in our mapping device (the quadrants)
* Understand and identify cases where these companies are “experimenting” or “adopting” commons-based approaches
*Identify what companies are the “Microsofts” of the field and what companies are the “IBMs” of the field
* Identify these cases and treat them as entities that will also be placed in our mapping device (the quadrants)
* Identify what companies are the “Microsofts” of the field and what companies are the “IBMs” of the field  


==Market profile==  
==Market profile==  
The following chart, using 2008 data from Simba Information, illustrates the consolidation of the traditional textbook market at the K-12 level, where just four publishers control over 90% of the market:


The textbook sector is concentrated in four big publishing companies that have absorbed dozens of independent textbook companies, through mergers and acquisitions. Many have become brand names inside large companies.
[[Image:K-12TextbookPublisherPieGraph.png|center]]


* [[McGraw-Hill]]
The four big publishing companies have absorbed dozens of independent textbook companies, through mergers and acquisitions. Many have become brand names inside large companies.
** Public traded at the New York Stock Exchange
** Absorbed: Macmillan, Merrill, and Glencoe
** Product lines: long history in business and technical publications and databases. It also owns elhi, college, and testing lines as well as Standard & Poor’s and Business Week.
** Business strategy: interested in extending its global English-language franchise


* [[Pearson]]
** Public traded at the New York Stock Exchange
** Absorbed: Prentice-Hall, Silver Burdett, Ginn, Addison Wesley, Longman, and Scott Foresman
** Product lines:


* [[Reed Elsevier]]
#'''[[McGraw-Hill]]'''
** Public traded at the New York Stock Exchange
#'''[[Pearson]]'''
** Controls Harcourt
#'''[[Houghton Mifflin]]'''
*** Harcourt has absorbed:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston
#:'''[[Harcourt Education]]'''
** Product lines:
#'''[[Reed Elsevier]]'''


* [[Houghton Mifflin]]
** Owned by a consortium of private eaquity groups (Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital, and Blackstone Group)
** 4 biggest
**  Absorbed: D.C. Heath and Mc Dougal Littell
** Product lines:


==Navigation==
 
= Navigation =
[[Bibliography for Item 6 in EM]]<br>
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Back to [[Educational Materials]]


[[Category:Educational Materials]]
[[Category:Educational Materials]]

Latest revision as of 16:20, 19 June 2009

Research Questions

  • What are the 10 biggest for-profit companies in this field?
  • How is the market distributed?
  • Where are they located? Are there any incentives for specific locations?
  • Correlate them with their main outputs (Data, Narratives, Tools)
  • Understand and identify cases where these companies are “experimenting” or “adopting” commons-based approaches
  • Identify these cases and treat them as entities that will also be placed in our mapping device (the quadrants)
  • Identify what companies are the “Microsofts” of the field and what companies are the “IBMs” of the field

Market profile

The following chart, using 2008 data from Simba Information, illustrates the consolidation of the traditional textbook market at the K-12 level, where just four publishers control over 90% of the market:

K-12TextbookPublisherPieGraph.png

The four big publishing companies have absorbed dozens of independent textbook companies, through mergers and acquisitions. Many have become brand names inside large companies.


  1. McGraw-Hill
  2. Pearson
  3. Houghton Mifflin
    Harcourt Education
  4. Reed Elsevier


Navigation

Bibliography for Item 6 in EM
Back to The K-12 Level
Back to Educational Materials

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