Is scholarly publishing becoming a monopoly ?
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In August this year the Financial Times reported that Wolters Kluwer ( [http://www.wolters-kluwer.com/] ), the Dutch publisher, was considering a bid for Harcourt General ( [http://www.harcourt.com/] ), the US textbook producer [1]. Wolters Kluwer is the third largest commercial professional publisher in the world with a 1998 revenue of over US$2,380 million [2]. Harcourt is sixth largest with a 1998 revenue of over US$525 million (see tables 1, 2 and 3). Combined, they would make a formidable force within professional publishing but, according to the Financial Times, "US antitrust authorities would be unlikely to allow Harcourt's sizeable medical division to be combined with Wolters'." It would have to be sold off.
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