Koninklijke Brill NV cancelled the acquisition of Annali, Sezione Orientale, Eurasian Studies and Ming Qing Yanjiu on March 22, 2017.

Koninklijke Brill NV specializes in book and magazine publishing. The publications are related mainly to historical, socio-economic, religious, scientific and political studies. Net sales break down by activity as follows: - book publishing (69.1%): essays, reference works, encyclopedias, monographs; - magazine publishing (27.6%); - publishing of archives and old documents (3.3%). The group's products are published on paper and electronic support (Internet and CD-Rom). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Western Europe (54.3%), North America (35.3%), Asia/Pacific (7.6%) and other (2.8%).