Re: [PLUG] syngress publishing?

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

On Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:29, Eugene Smiley wrote:
> JP Vossen wrote:
> > I did learn that Syngress was bought by Elsevier about a year ago, but
> > I've never heard of Elsevier...
> > http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05
> >_00583 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200612/ai_n17071012
>
> Elsevier has a long history in Europe. They are an Anglo-Dutch publisher
> who purchased W.B. Saunders back in 2001, I think. Saunders was mainly a
> medical publisher and owned Mosby as well. Saunders also owned Harcourt
> Education (formerly Harcourt and Harcourt Brace Janovich) who you may know
> publishes school textbooks. Before 2001, Elsevier was mainly in Europe with
> some business in Asia.

Elsevier is quite large.  It owns either Lexis/Nexis or West Publishing (I 
can't remember which), too.


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