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BPI Buys Britain's Whitaker Co.(acquisitions in the publishing industry)(Brief Article)
BPI, THE BUSINESS INFORMATION and magazine publishing subsidiary of the Dutch group VNU, has bought the British company Whitaker, publisher of the Bookseller, for an undisclosed sum.
The sale includes Whitaker Business Publishing, publisher of the British book trade journal, the new Rights Report newsletter and Information Age, as well as Whitaker Information Services, which operates the International ISBN agency in the U.K., TeleOrdering; Bibliographic Services; and BookTrack, which monitors point-of-sale book information in the U.K.
BPI owns several business magazines, including Billboard, Adweek, Mediaweek, Hollywood Reporter and Backstage, and last year …
