Publisher Tries to Sell Ads In Textbooks

One of Canada’s biggest textbook publishers – McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. – has been “quietly trying to coax companies into buying advertising space in their texts. ‘Reach a hard to get target group where they spend all their parents’ money. Do you really think 18-24 year olds see those on-campus magazine ads? Do you really think they could miss an ad that is placed in a very well-respected textbook’?”