Today’s Big Buy Perpetually for sale/not for sale academic and professional giant Blackwell Holdings has quietly reached an agreement to sell the company to Wiley for 572 million pounds ($1.08 billion), or a 2.7 multiple of 2005 sales of 210 million pounds. According to the announcement, Wiley already has “irrevocable commitments from the principal shareholders.” Release If You Can Believe It Judith Regan’s bizarre 2,200-word statement should be read in full rather than through newspaper excerpts. The gist, as you probably know, is that she’s publishing the book because her ex-husband abused her. That and: “I made the decision to […]