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To prepare, RR Donnelley approved the expansion of its four-color education platform in 2004, adding two presses and some bindery modifications at its Willard, OH, plant, Donnelley's principal education book facility.

Looking ahead to 2006, the biggest adoptions will be in: California, which will be adopting history and social science books, known jointly as social studies; Florida, which will adopt K-12 subjects; and North Carolina, which has a large reading adoption scheduled, according to Rick Blake, vice president of communications and government relations with Harcourt, a global education company, in Orlando, FL.