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How a digital idea became a multi-billion dollar business (Part 1 or 4)

How a digital idea became a multi-billion dollar business (Part 1 or 4) LOGOS 128 How a digital idea became a multi-billion dollar business Paul Brown After reading Law at Cambridge, Paul Brown joined Butterworths in London in the 1970s. In the course of a thirty-year career in legal publishing, he worked as editor on multi-volume legal works; spent two years in South Africa running the Butterworth company there; and in the early ’90s, became responsible for the UK franchise of the LEXIS business. After acquisition of LEXIS, he was Vice President of Legal Information Services in Dayton, Ohio and became President of Matthew Bender when Reed Elsevier acquired it from the Times Mirror Corporation. After a period as Chief Operating Officer for all Reed Elsevier legal publishing in the US, he worked in London again on corporate strategy before retiring to Normandy, where he now enjoys “the rhythms of a bucolic lifestyle”. Email: pwabrown2000@yahoo.co.uk (Information technology is now old enough to have a history. But history was and is the last thing on the minds of both its pioneers and its contemporary practi- tioners. What follows is the inside story of one of the oldest and most successful electronic enterprises. It had its beginnings in the unlikely environment of Mead http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

How a digital idea became a multi-billion dollar business (Part 1 or 4)

Brown, Paul
Logos , Volume 13 (3): 128 – Jan 1, 2002
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© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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LOGOS 128 How a digital idea became a multi-billion dollar business Paul Brown After reading Law at Cambridge, Paul Brown joined Butterworths in London in the 1970s. In the course of a thirty-year career in legal publishing, he worked as editor on multi-volume legal works; spent two years in South Africa running the Butterworth company there; and in the early ’90s, became responsible for the UK franchise of the LEXIS business. After acquisition of LEXIS, he was Vice President of Legal Information Services in Dayton, Ohio and became President of Matthew Bender when Reed Elsevier acquired it from the Times Mirror Corporation. After a period as Chief Operating Officer for all Reed Elsevier legal publishing in the US, he worked in London again on corporate strategy before retiring to Normandy, where he now enjoys “the rhythms of a bucolic lifestyle”. Email: pwabrown2000@yahoo.co.uk (Information technology is now old enough to have a history. But history was and is the last thing on the minds of both its pioneers and its contemporary practi- tioners. What follows is the inside story of one of the oldest and most successful electronic enterprises. It had its beginnings in the unlikely environment of Mead

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