Information Industry–Reed Elsevier
Source: Forbes
Profile: Reed Elsevier
From the article, “Amid a media recession, Crispin Davis is coining money at Reed Elsevier. How did he pull that off? ” Also from the article, “James Neal, who as head of Columbia University’s libraries in New York is a big customer, gives Reed Elsevier top marks for creating user-friendly research products, but he also has a six-point gripe list with the company that includes price-gouging and concerns that scientific journals are increasingly being consolidated under one corporate banner. Britain’s Office of Fair Trading calculates that Reed Elsevier’s price increases since 1999 compounded at a 22% rate, versus 8% for the U.S. consumer price index.”

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