§ 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.

Terms Used In N.Y. Education Law 721

  • Adopter: means any faculty member or academic department at institutions of higher learning responsible for considering and choosing textbooks and/or supplemental materials to be utilized in connection with the accredited courses taught at institutions of higher education. See N.Y. Education Law 720
  • Publisher: means any publishing house, publishing firm, or publishing company that publishes textbooks and supplemental materials. See N.Y. Education Law 720
  • Supplemental materials: means materials that supplement the primary textbook or textbooks that come in the form of another book, online technologies, a workbook, CD-ROM, or any other format, and that can be used by a faculty member or a student during the teaching of a course. See N.Y. Education Law 720
  • Textbook: means any textbook that is adopted for a course, as determined by the faculty member or members or entity charged with choosing that textbook. See N.Y. Education Law 720

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.

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