Stresses & Strains

• Growing gap between price of info & ability to pay

• Explosion in knowledge ñ volume & formats

• Publishing industry consolidation

• Circle of gifts vs. market economy

1998 Acquisitions

Reed Elsevier (5)

• Engineering Information

• JAI/Ablex

Wolters-Kluwer (11)

• Waverly

• Plenum

• Ovid

• Thomson Science

Bertlesmann (6)

• Springer-Verlag

Thomson (29)

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