RE: Publisher Genealogy

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

I am sure there is a lot of information available from mergers 
and acquisitions people who follow such changes of ownership but 
I do not know where it is consolidated.

See http://www.bertolimitchell.co.uk/research.htm for one site 
which has annual updates - not quite the same thing I know.

Unfortunately these lists are not entirely reliable because any 
major acquisition involves some small scale disposals, which only 
those involved in them may actually know about in detail. The 
break-up of Chapman & Hall when the Thomson Corporation sold it 
to Wolters Kluwer. The imprint (which is on some of Charles 
Dickens's earliest work) was trashed by the Dutch publisher and 
is only now to be seen on the statistics books of CRC Press.

At least that is my understanding and I am happy to be corrected. 
I bet the fact that CRC Press bought and have successfully 
continued to publish the very high quality statistics list of C&H 
is just the sort of thing that probably does not appear on any 
resource.

Anthony Watkinson