Publishers blame Vat rate for cost of books
The Irish Educational Publishers’ Association (IEPA), which is made up of large companies, including Gill & Macmillan and CJ Fallon, stressed that just 42 books from more than 2,336 were revised last year, and half of those were due to curriculum change.
It made the comments as it published its annual survey, which revealed that the number of e-textbooks in use last year reached 40,000, up from just 100 in 2010.
