Jones & Bartlett acquires Association Publishing Assets.Jones & Bartlett (Sudbury Sudbury, city, Canada Sudbury, city (1991 pop. 92,884), central Ont., Canada. It is the center of Canada's largest mining region, which produces much of the world's nickel and large quantities of copper, platinum, gold, silver, cobalt, and sulfur. , MA) has acquired a large portion of the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA NFPA National Fire Protection Association NFPA National Food Processors Association NFPA National Fluid Power Association NFPA National Federation of Paralegal Associations (Edmonds, WA) ; Quincy Quincy. 1 (kwĭnt`sē) City (1990 pop. 39,681), seat of Adams co., W Ill., on a bluff above the Mississippi; inc. 1839. It is a trade, industrial (steel parts), and distribution center in a grain and livestock area. , MA) professional reference and textbook textbook Informatics A treatise on a particular subject. See Bible. publishing program. Included in the acquisition are approximately 100 NFPA fire service and electrical titles. No terms of the deal were given. The NFPA will continue to publish codes, standards and related handbooks. In April 2002, Jones & Bartlett entered into a publishing partnership with the NFPA to publish training materials based on NFPA standards and the company said the current acquisition will expand the partnership, "enhance J&B's fire service list, and launch a new electrical technology list for J&," the company said. Jones & Bartlett is the world's seventh largest publisher of college and professional materials in the U,S, and produces text, professional and reference books and a variety of multimedia and online products in a range of fields. |
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