Not totally unrelated: Pearson is a piece of trash company. They sell very overpriced textbooks and always use DRM in online copies. They lobby for standardized tests in states and get them mandated. Students are put through them. And guess who provides the certificate required by teachers to evaluate those exam copies? Yes, Pearson.
And they make a ton of money.
Please watch this talk for more context (even if you don't like TED talks): https://youtu.be/BnC6IABJXOI