From: "Sanfilippo, Tony" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:18:08 +0000

Yeah, it was Iowa State, I think some of their veterinarian science list
was also continued. I don’t think it was Pearson at the time but I can’t
find any record of the transaction online, and which ever publisher it was,
there’s a decent chance it’s part of Pearson now.

I remember it sending shivers through me the first time I heard about. Can
they do that? Yes, apparently, they can.

Tony Sanfilippo, Director
Ohio State University Press
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On Aug 28, 2019, at 3:49 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Alexander Holzman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 05:52:31 -0700

Closest I can recall is Pearson (I think) buying Iowa State Univ Press
25 or 30 years ago, mainly to get rights to some aviation texts.  The
rest of the list was discontinued and the staff fired, if I recall
correctly. Others may have a fuller memory of the event.

Alex Holzman


> On Aug 28, 2019, at 1:14 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Danny Kingsley <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:56:47 +1000
>
> No Saskia I can’t think of any examples. The only thing that is sort
> of along these lines that I can think of is the buying of Knowledge
> Unlatched by a for-profit company.
>
> Danny
>
> Dr Danny Kingsley
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> On 28 Aug 2019, at 01:04, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Saskia de Vries <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:14:53 +0000
>
>
http://www.guygeltner.net/blog/2582019unusual-business-a-university-press-goes-private-and-no-one-is-the-wiser
>
> As founder and previous director of Amsterdam University Press I am
stunned ...
> Has any of you ever heard of the privatization of a university press?
> Saskia de Vries