Professional edition

The professional numerical Edition is a dynamic sector very far away from the more traditional sectors of the literary and artistic edition. (the professionals of the sector gathers within an association GFII (association of the public and private actors of the occupational numerical information)

Sectors

Here a list of the main actors of the professional edition by sector in the world.

Legal and tax edition

Reed Elsevier

Wolters Kluwer

Thomson Corporation

Edition Francis Lefebvre (Dalloz/Legislative Editions)

Lexis Nexis

Financial information

Bloomberg

Thomson (see Keneth Thomson and the site of the group Thomson Corporation)

Reuters

Scientific and medical edition

Elsevier (see Reed Elsevier)

Springer (see Springer Verlag)

United Business Media (CMPMedica)

Informed/Taylor & Francis

John Wiley & sounds/Blackwell Publishing (amalgamated since November 2006)

Information of solvency of the companies

Experian (see)

Coface Services (fusion of SCRL and ORT) group NATIXIS (see)

Altares (fusion of BIL and Dun and Bradstreet France) group FININFO (see)

Scores & Decisions (see)

Office van Dijk Electronic Publishing

School and university edition

Academic Close
Cambridge University Close
Chicago University Close
Editions of CNRS
Group Lagardere

McGraw-Hill

Pearson

Oxford University Close

Princeton University Close
John Wiley & Sounds

Houghton Mifflin (Group Reed Elsevier)

Business model

There exist mainly 2 types of business model in the field of the professional edition.

Publicity

The turnover of the company is mainly carried out by the invoicing of the advertizing inserts or the sale of its subscription files to advertisers; the company diffuses free or at a moderate cost its publications.

Example of companies: VNU, United Business Media…

Subscriptions

The turnover of the company is mainly carried out by the incomes drawn from the subscriptions to its publications. On a purely additional basis, the company draws from the incomes of the invoicing of the advertizing inserts or the marketing of files.

Example of companies: Reed Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer…

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