Bowker Products Acquired
by Information Today, CIG
Information Today announced September 4 that it had acquired publishing rights to a line of R. R. Bowker reference products in conjunction with Cambridge Information Group’s purchase of Bowker assets from Reed Elsevier in late August. The Anglo-Dutch publisher in February had announced its intention to divest its Bowker products.
Information Today purchased from CIG a number of Bowker’s directory publications serving the library, publishing, bookselling, and audiovisual markets. Affected titles include Literary Market Place, American Library Directory, American Book Trade Directory, and Library Resource Guide.
CIG will take over publishing the rest of Bowker’s products—to be handled by a new subsidiary, R. R. Bowker LLC, and other divisions within CIG—including Books In Print and Ulrich’s Guide to Periodicals.
Posted October 15, 2001.
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