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Wiley acquires turf and golf architecture publishing assets.


John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
  • John Wiley & Sons, publishing company
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  • John D. Wiley, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • John M. Wiley (1846–1912), U.S.
 & Sons (Hoboken, NJ) has acquired selected publishing assets of Sleeping Bear Press/Ann Arbor arbor

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 Press (Chelsea, MI). No terms of the deal were given.

The acquired assets include a collection of 50 titles, most published under the Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as  Press imprint im·print  
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, in the areas of turfgrass management and golf course design. Wiley said the list is the largest publishing program serving professionals and students of turf management Turf management or pitchcare describes the work needed to keep a sporting pitch ready for use. This article looks at the various types of sporting pitches and the type of challenges which they present.  and maintenance, sports field management, and golf course design. Revenues for the titles for the year ending May 31, 2002 were more than $1 million. Wiley said it plans to launch 4-6 new titles a year.

Wiley executive vice president and Professional/Trade Publishing division president Stephen Kippur noted that Wiley has been the leading publisher of professional landscape architecture books and resources since the company's purchase of Van Nostrand Reinhold from Thomson in 1998 and said "the addition of this high-quality list of turfgrass and golf course titles will build strength upon strength."
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Date:Aug 16, 2002
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