The German group Bertelsmann has sold BERTELSMANNSPRINGER (turnover of 731 million Euros in 2002, with a staff of 5,000), its "professional press" division, to private equity firms CANDOVER and CINVEN for 1.05 billion Euros. Active in 16 countries, BERTELSMANNSPRINGER publishes over 700 specialist magazine titles and over 4,000 books a year. CANDOVER and CINVEN will merge the company with KAP-KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, the publishing house they acquired in January for 600 million Euros....