Bibliography for Item 2 in EM

General Sources

• ACSFA, 2007. Proposed and Passed State Legislation Pertaining to Textbook Affordability (2004-2007), Washington, DC: Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Available at: http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/acsfa/edlite-txtbkstudy.html [Accessed March 12, 2009].
• Book Industry Study Group, 2005. Book Industry Trends, New York: Book Industry Study Group.
• Book Industry Study Group, 2008. Book Industry Trends, New York: Book Industry Study Group.
• Burrus, C.S., 2007. Connexions: An Open Educational Resource for the 21st Century. Educational Technology Magazine: The Magazine for Managers of Change in Education, 47(6), 19-22.
• Greco, A.N., 1997. The Book Publishing Industry, Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
• Greco, A.N., Rodriguez, C.E. & Wharton, R.M., 2007. The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century, Stanford, Calif: Stanford Business Books.
• McIlroy, T., 2008 (August 7). 'The Future of Educational Publishing'. 'The Future of Publishing. Available at: http://www.thefutureofpublishing.com/industries/the_future_of_educational_publishing.html [Accessed May 6, 2009].
• U.S. Census Bureau, Company Statistics Division & Bowan, L., 2008. Number of Firms, Number of Establishments, Employment, and Annual Payroll by Employment Size of the Enterprise for the United States, All Industries 2006, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau. Available at: http://www2.census.gov/csd/susb/2006/usalli06.xls [Accessed March 19, 2009].

K-12 Sources

• Allen, N. & Williams, R., 2008. 'Textbook Affordability Provisions in H.R. 4137'. Make Textboks Affordable. Available at: http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/newsroom.asp?id2=36865 [Accessed June 22, 2009].
• Cola, C. et al., 2009. 'Crossing the K-12 digital divide: Understanding and playing in a complex market'. TS Insights, 5(1). Available at: http://www.pwc.com/extweb/pwcpublications.nsf/docid/51A2B147879DA97B852574400011BAAF [Accessed May 5, 2009].
• The Thomas B. Fordham Institute (Fordham), 2004. The Mad, Mad World of Textbook Adoption, Washington, DC: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Available at: http://www.fordhaminstitute.org/detail/news.cfm?news_id=335 [Accessed May 9, 2009].
• Jones, Rebecca, 2000. Textbooks Troubles. Available at: http://kaimukirip.k12.hi.us/TemplatesPodcast/ScienceResources/Textbook%20Troubles.html [Accessed May 6, 2009]
• Loewen, J.W., [1995] 2007. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Simon and Schuster.
• 'New Budget Cuts Billions from Education'. 2009 (February 19). KCBS. Available at: http://www.kcbs.com/pages/3884143.php? [Accessed May 11, 2009].
• Paul, R., 2009 (May 8). 'California open source digital textbook plan faces barriers'. Ars Technica. Available at: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/california-launches-open-source-digital-textbook-initiative.ars [Accessed May 11, 2009].
• 'Schwarzenegger: Printed texts are old school'. 2009 (June 12). eSchool News. Available at: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=59180 [Accessed July 2, 2009].
• Sewall, G., 2005 (March). 'Textbook Publishing'. Phi Delta Kappan, 498-502.
• Stansbury, M., 2008 (January 24). 'Florida adopts open-content reading platform'. eSchool News. Available at: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=51790 [Accessed July 2, 2009].

Higher-Education Sources

• Esposito, J.J., 2005. Long-Tail Texts: A Proposal to Start a College Textbook Company.

• 'Foster Introduces Bill to Reduce Cost of College Textbooks'. 2009. U.S. Congressman Bill Foster. Available at: http://foster.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=114899 [Accessed March 30, 2009].

• U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2005. College Textbooks: Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Recent Price Increases, U.S. Government Accountability Office. Available at: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-05-806 [Accessed March 12, 2009].

• Koch, J.V., 2006. 'An Economic Analysis of Textbook Pricing and Textbook Markets'. ACSFA College Textbook Cost Study Plan Proposal, Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Available at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED497025 [Accessed March 12, 2009].

• Mickey, K. & Meaney, K., 2008. College Publishing Market Forecast 2008-2009 Simba Information, ed., Stamford, CT: Simba Information.

• Powell, W.W., 1985. Getting into Print: The Decision-Making Process in Scholarly Publishing, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Shamchuk, L., 2009. Higher Education Textbook Publishing: Past, Present and Future. Available at: http://www.slideshare.net/lshamchuk/higher-education-textbook-publishing-past-present-and-future [Accessed May 6, 2009].

• Thompson, J.B., 2005. 'Survival Strategies for Academic Publishing'. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 51(41), B6.

• Thornton, P.H. & Ocasio, W., 1999. Institutional Logics and the Historical Contingency of Power in Organizations: Executive Succession in the Higher Education Publishing Industry, 1958‐1990. American Journal of Sociology, 105(3), 801-843.

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