Jones and Bartlett acquires book division from Aspen Publishers.Jones and Bartlett Publishers (Sudbury, MA) has acquired the Health Care Book Publishing book publishing. The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like. division of Aspen aspen, in botany aspen: see willow. Aspen, city, United States Aspen (ăs`pən), city (1990 pop. 5,049), alt. 7,850 ft (2,390 m), seat of Pitkin co., S central Colo. Publishers (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), a unit of Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . No terms were given. Aspen was represented by investment banking firm Eugene Simonoff & Associates (New York). Aspen's Health Care Book Publishing division produces over 150 textbooks and more than 400 professional books in the fields of health administration, public health, medicine, nursing, allied health, criminal justice, fundraising and non-profit management. Jomes and Bartlett said it will integrate the acquired assets into its current offering of products for the health and related fields. Jones and Bartlett is the eighth largest college publisher in the U.S. It produces textbooks, references, multimedia and online products in the fields of mathematics, computer science, life sciences, physical sciences, health education, allied health, medicine, nursing, fire science and criminal justice. Aspen ceo Jane Butler said the unit was sold because "over the past several years, Aspen's focus has changed from health care administration to the legal and business markets." |
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