Jones & Bartlett acquires Association Publishing Assets.

Jones & Bartlett (Sudbury, MA) has acquired a large portion of the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA; Quincy, MA) professional reference and textbook publishing program. Included in the acquisition are approximately 100 NFPA fire service and electrical titles. No terms of the

In April 2002, Jones & Bartlett entered into a publishing partnership with the NFPA to publish training materials based on NFPA standards and the company said the current acquisition will expand the partnership, "enhance J&B's fire service list, and launch a new electrical technology list for J&," the company said.

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