| 2001 educational publishing deals |
| Achievement Technologies |
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| Bought Project Achieve, producer of curriculum management systems; terms not announced (December) |
| Benesse Holdings of Japan |
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| Increased stake in Berlitz International to a majority; terms announced (July) |
| Britannica |
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Bought Centre for Educational Technology of Israel, a software company; terms not announced (February) |
| Cambridge Information |
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| Bought R.R. Bowker, a bibliographic compiler, from Reed Elsevier; terms not announced (August) |
| Christian Book Distributors |
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Bought Home School from Courier Corporation; paid $800,000 (March) |
| CRC Press |
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Bought Parthenon Publishing, a medical publisher; terms not announced (June) |
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Bought Technomic Publisher, a science publisher; terms not announced (September) |
| Information Today |
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| Bought Bowker directories from Cambridge Information; terms not announced (August) |
| Kaplan of Canada |
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| Bought Study Seminar for Financial Analysts, which operates seminars; terms not announced (February) |
| McGraw-Hill |
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Bought Frank Schaffer Publications of Canada, a supplemental publisher, from Torstar; terms not announced (May) |
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| Bought Uniscore, a test scoring company; terms not announced (November) |
| Nasco International |
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| Bought American Educational Products, a supplemental publisher; terms not announced (June) |
| QSP Canada |
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| Bought eFundraising, an online school fundraiser; terms not announced (July) |
| Princeton Review |
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| Bought Embark.com, a college admissions company; terms not announced (October) |
| Reed Elsevier of Britain |
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| Bought Harcourt, a textbook and professional titles publisher; paid $5.7 billion (July) |
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| Bought Classroom Connect, a producer on online business resources; terms not announced (September) |
| Riverdeep Group |
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| Bought Learning Company, a software producer; paid $60 million (September) |
| Scholastic |
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| Bought Troll Communications, which operated book fairs, from Willis Stein; terms not announced (July) |
| SkillSoft |
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Bought Books24x7, an online technical information service; paid $32.4 million (December) |
| Thomson Learning of Canada |
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| Bought Mexico-based ECAFSA, publisher of accounting and financial textbooks; terms not announced (January) |
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| Bought Harcourt college titles from Reed Elsevier; paid $2.1 billion (July) |
| 3i Group of Britain |
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Bought EIG, a Dutch educational publisher, from VNU; paid $171 million; (August) |
| Vivendi of France |
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| Bought Houghton Mifflin; paid $2.2 billion (July) |
| Wicks Group |
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| Bought Delta Education, which produced science materials, from Tortar; terms not announced (July) |
| Wiley |
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| Bought Wright Books of Australia, a publisher of personal investment titles; terms not announced (May) |
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| Bought Hungry Minds (formerly IDG), a trade and reference publisher; paid $182.5 million (August) |
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Bought Frank J. Fabozzi Publishing, a publisher of finance books; terms not announced (August) |
| Wolters Kluwer of the Netherlands |
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| Bought CBF Systems, provider of financial services; terms not announced (January) |
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| Bought Emanuel Publishing, publisher of legal education materials; paid $2.2 million (February) |
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| Bought Compliance International, producer of regulatory and financial services; terms not announced (February) |
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| Bought Strafford Publications, producer of accounting and specialized information; terms not announced (November) |
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| WRC Media |
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| Bought Child U, provider of online curriculum; terms not announced (April) |
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| Bought Think Box, provider of a home learning content; terms not announced (April) |
