Legislation
SECTION 721
Pricing transparency
Education (EDN) CHAPTER 16, TITLE 1, ARTICLE 15-C
§ 721. Pricing transparency. 1. To ensure pricing transparency, all
publishers of college textbooks shall, on request, make readily
available to prospective adopters of their products who are members of
the faculties or purchasing entities of institutions of higher education
the price at which the publisher would make the products available to
the college bookstore that would offer the products to students.
2. For purposes of this section, the term "products" means all
versions of a textbook or set of textbooks, except custom textbooks or
special editions of textbooks, available in the subject area for which a
prospective adopter is teaching a course, including supplemental
materials, both when sold together or separately from a textbook.
publishers of college textbooks shall, on request, make readily
available to prospective adopters of their products who are members of
the faculties or purchasing entities of institutions of higher education
the price at which the publisher would make the products available to
the college bookstore that would offer the products to students.
2. For purposes of this section, the term "products" means all
versions of a textbook or set of textbooks, except custom textbooks or
special editions of textbooks, available in the subject area for which a
prospective adopter is teaching a course, including supplemental
materials, both when sold together or separately from a textbook.