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Riverdeep Considering Bid for Harcourt Education

Forbes.com reported Friday that Barry O'Callaghan, the head of Irish educational software publisher Riverdeep, is considering a bid for Reed Elsevier PLC's educational publishing business.

The interest comes a day after Reedpublisher surprised the market by saying it wanted to sell its underperforming education division, Harcourt Education, to focus on its faster-growing science, legal and business publishing businesses.

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Read the wire report here

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