Publishers help ease book cost burden for parents [Independent.ie]
- Published: 01 August 2011
PUPILS will again be able to pass their schoolbooks on to younger siblings under new measures being introduced to reduce the financial burden on parents.
Among the initiatives is an agreement by publishers not to revise any edition of a book within four years of publication, and that the book will remain in print throughout the four years.
A recent survey found that books for a child in primary school cost an average of €125 a year, with the cost rising to €238 a year for a child in secondary school.
However, this is expected to fall from next year after the Irish Educational Publishers Association (IEPA) agreed a new code of practice that means pupils can pass on their books to younger siblings and parents can sell them on the secondhand market.
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