[GOAL] McGraw Hill Education buyout by private equity firm: implications for open access

[Heather Morrison]

McGraw Hill Education, one of the world's largest textbook publishers, has just been bought by Apollo for $2.5 billion. My comments on the potential implications of this move for open access and open education, and links, can be found here:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/11/one-of-worlds-giant-textbook-publishers.html

Heather G. Morrison, PhD
Simon Fraser University School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/