Articles from Business Publisher (October 17, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Journal of Applied Packaging Research" from DEStech publications.			182
"Scr(i)pt" magazine sold to Final Draft.			196
ALM (New York), formerly American Lawyer Media and the publisher of 37 national and regional magazines and newspapers, has formed a conference and trade show division.			87
Blackwell purchases Brandywine Press; launches psychiatry journal.			188
Business Publisher stock quotes.			154
CCH, Inc. (Riverwoods, IL) has completed the acquisition of the stock of TaxWise Corp. (Rome, GA).			81
CMP Technology's Game Group (San Francisco, CA), parent of "Game Developer" magazine and the Game Developers Conference, has acquired The Game Initiative (Austin, TX), a producer of conferences and events targeting game industry professionals, from Sherman Ventures (Austin, TX).			103
Elsevier & Int'l Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering launch Journal.		Brief article	217
Idea Group Publishing (Hershey, PA) will launch two new quarterly journals in the first quarter of 2007.			126
In related news, CMP Information (CMPi; London), sister company to CMP Technology and a unit of United Business Media, has acquired The Care Show (Ringwood, UK) 450,000 [pounds sterling] plus a further performance deferred payment of up to 350,000 [pounds sterling] over the next year.		Brief article	147
Informa agrees to buy Lawrence Erlbaum.			274
Jordan, Edmiston reports M&A activity "vibrant".		Brief article	277
Launch of "BevNet IBQ" magazine in January.			216
New merged engineering organization launches titles.			363
PR Newswire acquires U.S. Newswire.		Brief article	206
Springer Science + Business (New York) will launch two new journals beginning in 2007 in addition to a new 2006 launch.		Brief article	178
Taylor & Francis (Philadelphia, PA) will launch "Enterprise Information Systems," (EIS) a new quarterly journal, with an issue in early 2007.			95
Three new journals from Lawrence Erlbaun Assoc. in 2007.			294
Trade and professional magazine, journal, newsletter & online information periodicals, start-up or announced, third quarter, 2006.			838
VNU to explore options for business media Europe unit.		Brief article	288