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BUSINESS, Page 69Business NotesDIVESTITURESLightening The Load
In the first major sale of assets since Time Inc. acquired
Warner Communications last July, the merged company agreed last
week to shed a subsidiary that had turned out to be a disappointing
performer. Time Warner said it will sell its Illinois-based
textbook publishing unit, Scott, Foresman, for $455 million to
Harper & Row Publishers, which is owned by media baron Rupert
Murdoch's News Corp. When it bought Scott, Foresman in 1986, Time
paid $520 million and assumed $50 million in debt. Time Warner's
losses on the Scott, Foresman investment will total $175 million,
which will be written off in the fourth quarter.
Time Warner had decided that the textbook division failed to
fit well with its other publishing and entertainment businesses.
At the same time, the sale will help reduce the $12 billion in debt
that the company will assume when its merger is completed, sometime
around year's end.