LEXIS-NEXIS GROUP ACQUIRES THE BOOK PUBLISHING CO.The Lexis-Nexis Group (Dayton, OH), a unit of Reed Elsevier, has acquired The 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. Company (BPC BPC British Potato Council BPC Brewton-Parker College (Mt Vernon, GA) BPC Bible Presbyterian Church BPC Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (Chittagong, Bangladesh) BPC British Pharmaceutical Codex ; Seattle, WA), a producer of municipal codes and ordinances for local governments throughout the U.S. No terms of the deal were given. BPC is the second-largest publisher of municipal codes and Lexis Lexis® An online legal information service that provides the full text of opinions and statutes in electronic format. Subscribers use their personal computers to search the Lexis database for relevant cases. They may download or print the legal information they retrieve. said it is the only codification The collection and systematic arrangement, usually by subject, of the laws of a state or country, or the statutory provisions, rules, and regulations that govern a specific area or subject of law or practice. company to develop and support industry-specific software. BPC offers a range of code-related services to municipalities in order to ensure that their ordinances and resolutions are accurate, accessible and current. The company has published codified cod·i·fy tr.v. cod·i·fied, cod·i·fy·ing, cod·i·fies 1. To reduce to a code: codify laws. 2. To arrange or systematize. ordinances for more than 2000 municipalities since its founding in 1951 and has current contracts with approximately 1200 municipalities to publish their data. Lexis-Nexis publishes annotated state codes for 35 states and territories. Lexis-Nexis senior vice president Jim Smyth said the purchase "is a strong strategic fit" with L-N. "Its content is targeted at one of the largest market segments for Lexis-Nexis, small law. With it, we can provide...value- added, customizable information that will meet the specific needs of small and solo practitioners." The acquisition of BPC is the sixth made by Lexis-Nexis in the last 12 months. In that time the company has also acquired Mealey Publications, CorpAmerica, the Business Information Product division of the Financial Times Group, RiskWise International and Press Access. |
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