{"id":636,"date":"2020-10-26T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T11:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:20:11","slug":"concentration-in-the-publishing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/2020\/10\/26\/concentration-in-the-publishing-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Concentration in the publishing business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post tries to collect information about the concentration of market power with science publishers. If you want to contribute, please leave comments stating who bought whom in which year and a URL giving proof about the deal, in case you have one.<\/p>\n<p>The examples I start with are from linguistics and manl concern German publishing houses.<\/p>\n<p>Blackwell publishing (2007) -&gt; Wiley-Blackwell, owned by John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. (publically traded but controlled by the Wiley family via preference shares )<\/p>\n<p>B\u00f6hlau (2017) -&gt; Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht<\/p>\n<p>Bonn University Press\/Mainz University Press\/Universit\u00e4tsverlag Osnabr\u00fcck\/Vienna University Press -&gt; V &amp; R unipress -&gt; Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht<br \/>\nSource: https:\/\/www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com\/verlage\/<\/p>\n<p>Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht -&gt; Brill (2021) Quelle: taz, 06.03.2021<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolters_Kluwer#2000s\">Kluwer Academic Publishing -&gt; Springer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Niemeyer, Oldenburgh, Akademie-Verlag -&gt; De Gruyter GmbH<\/p>\n<p>Metzler -&gt; Springer<\/p>\n<p>Rodopi -&gt; Brill (2014)<\/p>\n<p>Routledge -&gt; Taylor &amp; Francis (<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">a division of Informa plc, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informa.com\/investors\/shareholder-centre\/major-shareholders\/\">biggest investor (7.77%) is BlackRock<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Westdeutscher_Verlag\">Westdeutscher Verlag<\/a> -&gt; Springer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post tries to collect information about the concentration of market power with science publishers. If you want to contribute, please leave comments stating who bought whom in which year and a URL giving proof about the deal, in case &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/2020\/10\/26\/concentration-in-the-publishing-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}