Oxford University Press acquires legal publisher.Oxford University Press (OUP OUP (in Northern Ireland) Official Unionist Party ; Cary Car·y A town of east-central North Carolina, an industrial suburb of Raleigh. Population: 98,000. , NC/ Oxford, Eng.) has acquired Blackstone Press, the publisher of professional, student and vocational books for the legal market, from BPP (Bits Per Pixel) See bit depth. bpp - bits per pixel plc. (London). No terms were given. Blackstone Press was founded in 1988 and has a backlist back·list n. A publisher's list of older titles kept in print. tr.v. back·list·ed, back·list·ing, back·lists To place (a title) on a backlist. of 400 books, including such titles as "Blackstone's Criminal Practice" and "Blackstone's Civil Practice," as well as a range of titles for law students. In 2000, the company published 30 new titles and had about [pounds sterling]5 million in revenues with net income of [pounds sterling]758,000. OUP ceo Henry Reece said the purchase of Blackstone "makes us the UK's leading educational publisher for law students (and) is a major step foward in our ambitions to become a leading publisher of high quality materials for the legal profession." |
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