The history of textbooks dates back to ancient civilizations. For example, Ancient Greeks wrote educational texts. The modern textbook has its roots in the mass production made possible by the printing press.

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The market for textbooks
As in many industries, the number of providers has declined in recent years (there are just a handful of major textbook companies in the United States). Also, elasticity of demand is fairly low. The term "broken market" appeared

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In most U.S. K-12public schools, a local school board votes on which textbooks to purchase from a selection of books that have been approved by the state Department of Education.

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Largely in the US, but increasingly in other nations, K-12 Mathematics textbooks have reflected the controversies of new math and reform mathematics which have sought to replace traditional mathematics in what have been called the math wars. Traditional texts, still

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In cases of history, science, current events, and political textbooks, "the writer might be biased towards one way or another. Topics such as actions of a country, presidential actions, and scientific theories are common potential biases".

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• John Amos Comenius - Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is credited by some with introducing pictorial textbooks

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In the U.S., college and university textbooks are chosen by the professor teaching the course, or by the department as a whole. Students are

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