Houghton acquires Webster's New World Dictionary, CliffsNotes, and big name cookbooks from Wiley

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said that it had acquired the culinary portfolio of John Wiley & Sons, as well as its reference books, including the classic Webster’'s New World Dictionary and CliffsNotes. The cost of the transaction was not disclosed. Wiley's cooking portfolio includes the all-American Betty Crocker cookbook series and Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" franchise, which produces apps for other high-profile cookbook authors like Rose Levy Beranbaum, Marcus Samuelsson and Ellie Krieger