Textbook publishers offer to cut reprints [schooldays.ie]
- Published: 01 August 2011
Rising costs has prompted leading publishers of school books to offer to revise current editions less frequently.
The Sunday Times reports the firms have written to Education Minister Ruairi Quinn stating they will not publish any new versions of the books "within at least four years".
All eight are members of the Irish Educational Publishers Association and the move is a response to growing criticism from parents, who are concerned about how much they need to send to purchase curriculum materials for their children.
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