Text book publishers will not likely make out on this like you may think. Textbooks are replaced on a schedule that is dictated by budget constraints. They will have to produce books that fit the CC curricula and schools will buy them, but not in greater quantities nor with more frequency than they would have otherwise.
Not sure what you're referring to with the Gates Foundation and software. Our CC testing, the SBAC test, is hosted on a secure server that the Montana Office of Public Instruction administers. The only money that I can see in CC core is for curricular experts in drawing up district level curricula to dovetail with the CC requirements.
