What are the antitrust issues that arise from this merger

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Recently Cengage and McGraw Hill, two textbook publishers, announced they were considering merging into one company and it raised a lot anti-trust type concerns. Read the following article from Inside Higher Ed Magazine called Publishers' Pending Merger Faces Growing Opposition and explain the anti-trust issues that the merger raises.

a. What are the antitrust issues that arise from this merger?

b. Are there things in the article that concern you as a college student?

c. Do you think this merger would have helped keep the cost of higher education down or would it have ultimately lead to higher textbook costs for students?

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