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...Macmillan agrees to pay $15 million in stock for Scribner
...large book companies have snapped up smaller ones in recent years, the once sedate world of publishing has been changing as fast as the plot of a Dickens novel. Last week two of the oldest and most prestigious publishers added a new chapter to the merger story. Macmillan (founded 1869) said it will pay about $15 million in stock for Scribner Book Companies, a closely held firm whose imprints include Charles Scribner's Sons (1846) and Atheneum...
...purchase, to take effect in June, is part of a recent merger mania by Macmillan (1983 sales: $430.5 million), whose businesses include the Katharine Gibbs secretarial schools and the Berlitz language instruction programs. Macmillan last year acquired six companies, including three educational publishers. The latest takeover will strengthen Macmillan in such areas as children's books, reference works and college texts...
...Above everything else," writes Alexander Haig, "a servant of the President owes his chief the truth." In his forthcoming book, Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy, to be published this month by Macmillan, the former Secretary of State serves up the truth, at least as he sees it, with the bark off. He describes an Executive Branch marked by guerrilla warfare and backbiting, and portrays himself as an "outsider" up against "an Administration of chums...
Haig sees it quite differently. His memoir is not just a defense of his record as Secretary of State, but a blistering counterattack against those former colleagues he blames for bringing him down and for thwarting his policies. Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy, to be published shortly (Macmillan; 384 pages; $17.95), takes its title from the Latin for "warning." The word underscores Haig's argument that the experience of the past three years offers a cautionary lesson in how not to conduct American foreign policy...