Companies - RELX Group

RELX Group is one of the largest publishers in the world. It provides services and products like subject information, professional and scientific information. These activities are concentrated in Europe and the U.S.. RELX Group focuses on the professional market. The company has four divisions: Science & Medical (scientific information), Legal (legal information), Education (educational information) and Business (subject information).

http://www.relx.com

Publishers

Companies in the publishing industry print and sell books, magazines and newspapers. There are many areas in which a publisher can specialize, such as the aforementioned product categories, but also the information which is written in their products. There are publishers specialized in schoolbooks, literature etc. Many publishers are increasing their activities on the internet, besides their historical activities of printing paper. The business model of a publisher is thereby extended with generating advertisement revenue, in addition to selling books.