Thieme Medical Publishers is planning the next phase of its Internet-heavy growth strategy.

Imagine you’re a medical student and, like all students, you’re facing major textbook expenses.

Enter Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., New York, a unit of Thieme International. Last year, this 27-year-old medical textbook publisher put its books for medical students online and is using the Internet to grow its business. The publisher wants to triple or quadruple its revenue from this market segment over the next three years, says Brian Scanlan, managing director of Thieme International, a division of the Stuttgard, Germany-based Thieme Publishing Group, founded in 1886.