Hodder Education acquisition of RSM Book Publishing

(April 2010)

Hodder Education, part of the Hachette UK group, has reached an agreement with the Royal Society of Medicine Press to acquire both their commercial books programme and the medical exam preparation website examdoctor.co.uk. The programme comprises approximately 200 existing titles and a new publishing programme of 20 titles a year. Hodder Education, through its Health Sciences imprint Hodder Arnold, will continue to publish and develop RSM Books using the RSM logo under licence from The Royal Society of Medicine. Bertoli Mitchell brokered the transaction, acting on behalf of The Royal Society of Medicine.