Google Acquires Frommer’s Travel Guides and Other Travel Assets From Wiley
On August 10, 2012, Wiley entered into a definitive agreement to sell all of its travel assets, including all of its interests in the Frommer’s brand, to Google. Proceeds from this sale, and others that may arise from the sale of other consumer assets, will be redeployed to support growth opportunities in Professional/Trade; Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly; and Global Education businesses.
See Also: A Look at Wiley’s Travel Assets
See Also: Wiley/Frommer’s Also Offers the What’sOnWhen.com Database of Events Around the World
Coverage
- Google to Buy Frommer’s Travel Brand (via WSJ)
- Google to Acquire Frommer’s Travel Assets From John Wiley (Bloomberg)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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