B&N Education Buys MBS for $174 Million

In another move that consolidates the college retail and wholesale market, Barnes & Noble Education has acquired MBS Textbook Exchange for $174.2 million in cash. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Scholastic buys book fair business Troubadour

Scholastic has acquired Troubadour, also known as The Travelling Book Company, for an undisclosed sum. Steve Thompson, co-group m.d. of Scholastic UK, said the publisher had been tracking Troubadour’s progress for some time. “We know that by having a flexible approach to providing schools with... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An education

Such is the impact of the austerity cuts, particularly on public and school libraries, that it can take a while to find someone in the book industry with good things to say about the next five years of Tory government. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ness's Fundraiser Raises Half a Million Pounds for Save the Children

American-born English author Patrick Ness's fundraising appeal for Save the Children, instigated last week with his offer to match up to £10,000, has now raised more than half a million pounds. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Television giant Media General to buy Meredith in $2.4bn merger

Combined company to be called Meredith Media GeneralMerger to create ‘powerful multiplatform and diversified media company’Broadcaster Media General announced on Tuesday that it is buying TV and publishing company Meredith Corp in an approximately $2.4bn cash-and-stock deal.The combined company,... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media General to Buy Magazine Publisher, TV Broadcaster Meredith

Media General Inc said it would buy diversified media company Meredith Corp for about $2.34 billion to create the third-largest local TV station owner in the United States.   The deal marks Media General's return to the print business, after ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McGraw-Hill Education to Go Public

McGraw-Hill Education confirmed Friday that it plans to go public, approximately three years after the private equity firm, the Apollo Group, acquired the educational publishing giant. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AOL Scoops Up Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media for $238 Million

After two months of speculation, AOL has acquired mobile ad network Millennial Media for $238 million, or about $1.75 per share. The Millennial deal is the newest step in building out AOL's tools to compete in mobile advertising against behemoths like Facebook, Yahoo and Google. With the deal,... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naxos Audiobooks buys rights to Larkin novels

Naxos Audiobooks has acquired audiobook rights to five Larkin novels by H E Bates, including The Darling Buds of May. The company acquired an exclusive licence to the unabridged audiobook rights to the novels in a deal with Peters, Fraser and Dunlop in association with Pollinger Limited,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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RH Children's Buys Self-Pubbed Phenom 'Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep'

The self-published picture book 'The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep,' which shot to the top of Amazon's U.K. print list a few weeks ago, has officially been acquired in by Penguin Random House. The publisher took world English rights to the book in a joint deal between Random House U.S. and... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Susie Nicklin buys Dulwich Books

Dulwich Books has been bought by Susie Nicklin, executive chair and co-founder of The Marsh Agency, for an undisclosed sum. The deal came about Dulwich Books’ former owner Sheila O’Reilly told The Bookseller that she was looking for a business partner to help expand the company in multiple... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An education from Alan Watkins, the master columnist of Fleet Street | Peter Oborne

The political writer’s A Short Walk Down Fleet Street vividly describes the characters and culture of a golden age in newspaper publishingWhen I was a schoolboy in the 1970s, I used to read Alan Watkins’s column in the New Statesman every week. Through him I felt I personally knew and understood... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Globe Business sells books division in management buy-out

B2B content company Globe Business Media Group has sold its portfolio of law books to a management-led team for an undisclosed sum. The buyers of the division, Globe Law and Business, are a consortium led by Jim Smith, a publisher who spent a number of years on the board of Lexus Nexus. Sian... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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School and Library Spotlight: How Schools Buy and Use E-Books

A snapshot of today’s educational ebook market, and where influencers think it is heading. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers Tracking Trends In the Educational Space

School and library publishers are developing apps, handouts, social media campaigns, and more to address teachers’ and librarians’ needs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WH Allen buys 'new ideas' book with Sandberg foreword

WH Allen has acquired a book about championing new ideas, with a foreword written by Sheryl Sandberg. Jamie Joseph, WH Allen senior commissioning editor, bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Originals by Adam Grant from David Miller at Rogers, Coleridge and White. In Originals Grant shows how... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kik raises $50 million from China's Tencent to battle Facebook, hire in L.A.

Kik, a chat app that claims 40% of U.S. teenagers as users, announced a $50-million investment Tuesday from Chinese tech company Tencent that values the start-up at $1 billion. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Educational Publishers Sue Textbook Reseller

Three major education publishers this week filed a copyright and trademark infringement suit against a U.S.-based textbook reseller for allegedly importing and selling pirated foreign editions of popular textbooks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Periscope's live streaming video reaches nearly 2 million users daily

Now that Facebook is getting into streaming (soon for non-celebs too) and even Google/YouTube is taking notice, the folks at Twitter-owned Periscope are publishing some stats to let us know where the bar is for live video apps. In a blog post on Me... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why NBCU Invested $200 Million in Vox

By taking a stake in Vox Media, NBCUniversal is finally getting a foothold in native digital publishing. The $200 million equity investment will see the two collaborate on digital and video advertising and video programming. The deal, announced Wednesday, will include Vox Media editors and... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&N Education Q1 Revenue Up 5.9%

Barnes & Noble Education, the company which was officially spun off from B&N in August, reported first quarter revenues of $239 million for BNE, an increase of $13.3 million (or 5.9%) over the same period a year ago. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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