Double-digit growth predicted for STM publishers

Outsell has issued a press release on its new market report on the STM industry. Excerpt:

Outsell, Inc....today announced publication of its second annual MarketView report, Scientific, Technical & Medical Information: 2006 Market Size, Share, Forecast and Trend Report. In it, Outsell forecasts a compound annual growth rate for the segment of 7.2 percent through 2009, to reach $25.5 billion in revenue....

Key findings:

• The top 25 companies, particularly in the geophysical and energy segment, will be the engine behind STM growth in the next year. Double-digit growth is common where geophysical information and rich data are involved....
• The top 10 STM companies include Elsevier, Thomson Scientific and Healthcare, Wolters Kluwer Health, Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck Gmbh, Springer Science + Business Media, American Heart Association, Inc., WesternGeco, IHS, Inc., American Chemical Society (ACS), and John Wiley & Sons, Inc....

Companies that would like to purchase this report should go [here] or contact Outsell directly at 650-342-6060....