Publishers agree discounts on schoolbooks [educationmatters.ie]
- Published: 16 October 2011
The majority of educational publishers have confirmed that schools purchasing in bulk for book rental schemes will benefit from discounts of 12-17.5%. This follows a second meeting on October 11 between Minister for Education & Skills Ruairi Quinn and representatives of the publishing bodies.
Eight publishers have also signed up to a voluntary Code of Practice, which recommends that no revisions be made to existing text books for four years unless there are changes required because of curriculum and/or examinations changes. It was also agreed that old editions of these text books would be kept in print for a further two years (unless annual sales fell below 500 copies).
This means that, in future, a new edition of a textbook will be available for a minimum of six years.
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