Houghton Mifflin enlarges book bag
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Boston-based publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. said yesterday that it will buy Harcourt Education and two other parts of London-based Reed Elsevier PLC for $4 billion to strengthen and diversify its educational publishing business.
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Houghton Mifflin Co. on Wednesday agreed to a nearly $1.8 billion buyout that will pair a venerable name in educational textbook publishing with Riverdeep Inc., a smaller firm whose complementary strength is in educational software.
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Description: This week, the search engine Google announced plans to digitize millions of library books and make them searchable online.
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Google has introduced a number of new features to its Google Book Search that allow users to more thoroughly explore and share books and passages online.
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The combination of the size (2.2 by 6.7 by 4.8 inches, HWD), weight (2.5 pounds with the battery), and battery lets you bring the printer and a PictBridge camera anywhere and print photos on the spot.
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Riverdeep Inc., an Irish educational software publisher, agreed to buy U.S. textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin for about $1.75 billion in cash and the assumption of about $1.61 billion in net debt, the companies said on Wednesday.
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When supermodel Heidi Klum decided to write a book, she didn't want it to be just a picture book. She wanted to offer some words of wisdom.
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By Kathy Morrison, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 17--With just about a week left for Christmas shopping, I couldn't resist offering a few more suggestions of gifts for readers of chapter books.
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Well, boot up, bibliophile. That vision took a big step toward becoming reality this week, as Internet search-engine firm Google and five big libraries announced plans to create a giant online reading room.
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Neiman Marcus on Tuesday unveiled its 2004 Christmas Book, which features an extraordinary array of gifts from a his and her bowling alley to a 230-foot-long Zeppelin.
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Google Inc. is expanding its territory from bytes to books. The world's largest Internet search engine said yesterday it will soon begin a program to index books and bound periodicals in the libraries of Harvard University.
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Area being scoured for missing adventurer is expanded to 10,000 square miles.
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Riverdeep Inc., an Irish educational  software publisher, agreed to buy U.S. textbook publisher  Houghton Mifflin for about $1.75 billion in cash and the  assumption of about $1.61 billion in net debt, the companies  said on Wednesday.
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including out of print volumes -- soon will become part of the vast Google database. Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep.
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A cache of theater-related documents, part of a gift to the New York Public Library, offers a revealing glance at Ms. Hepburnâs personality, profession and obsessions.
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Textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin  will be acquired by Riverdeep, an Irish educational software  publisher, for $1.75 billion, the companies said on Wednesday.