<div dir="ltr">The key to publisher success in the out-of-control pricing during the last 30 years of academic and scholarly journal publishing has been coercion. A dysfunctional system still controls the majority of academic library budgets. Publishers are now poised to make the implicit coercion in textbook sales explicit.<b><font color="#ff0000"> They have in their sights the long-term goal of destruction of the secondary textbook market and freedom to price as they see fit without competing forces.</font></b><div>
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