The merger provides Blackwell authors with an extended and more powerful reach into the global book marketplace. It unites the marketing and sales arms of the individual companies, strengthing relationships with book retailers, direct customers, and libraries worldwide. The combined company extends the market scope for Blackwell books across trade, student and textbook, reference, medical, clinical, and professional arenas. Information for Bookstores Distribution and customer service in Europe and Asia will continue to be managed by Marston Book Services. Arrangements for North America and Australasia will remain the same for the time being but changes in US distribution will be announced to bookstore accounts at the end of March.
Current arrangements stand for subscription orders, claims and enquiries.
However, Blackwell Publishers Inc, Blackwell Publishers Ltd and Munksgaard will announce details of the changes to subscription processing later in 2001. We can now offer academic library consortia and libraries in commercial organizations a licence to cover all online journals for the merged company. We have formed an international journals sales team led by Ian Bannerman. We are in the process of integrating some Munkgaard operations into the UK company. Munksgaard will continue to focus on journal publishing with particular emphasis on dentistry, transplantation and immunology.