The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 28th, 2000
Anglo-Dutch firm buying science, text publisher
Canada's Thomson also will get a piece of Harcourt General
Associated Press
Saturday, October 28, 2000
Amsterdam, Netherlands -- Reed Elsevier, a leading publisher of textbooks and medical books, is buying Harcourt General, a U.S. schoolbook publisher, for about $4.45 billion.
The Anglo-Dutch company said Friday it planned to sell Harcourt's higher education publishing operations and some of its corporate and professional services to Canada's Thomson Corp. for $1.2 billion.
That will leave Reed Elsevier with Harcourt's scientific, technical...
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