Although these cases failed to end the precedent that public schools may set their own curriculum, the Smith and Mozert arguments had significant effects on schoolchildren nationally. The passages the Mozert plaintiffs had highlighted in court were removed from the Holt readers, and the other major textbook publishers made so many changes that Mel Gabler, the most famous Texas textbook censorship leader, deemed the 1987 texts "much more balanced." The publishers' responses illustrated the two realities of protracted textbooks lawsuits: 1) regardless of legal outcomes, a nationally publicized case can have direct effects on text content; and 2) litigation, combined with market forces, encourages publishers to produce texts that will satisfy buyers in the two largest, highly lucrative state contract areas of California and Texas. Because California is generally liberal, whereas Texas is generally conservative, publishers eager to offend...