Accessible children's publisher Barrington Stoke will publish a YA novella by the late Mal Peet. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sherlock Holmes teams up with Henry James to stop an international conspiracy (yes, really) in Dan Simmons's latest. PW senior reviews editor Peter Cannon loves it meta-fictional wiles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sourcebooks announced this morning that it has made a significant addition to its trade division, buying Dr. Thomas W. Phelan's bestselling 13-book line of parenting titles, 1-2-3 Magic. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. is close to acquiring Jane Pratt's xoJane and xoVain sites for an undisclosed sum as it looks to increase its content targeting millennial women, sources tell Adweek. The New York publisher is interested in buying Pratt's two sites to build up its focus on digital-only brands, which... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber has acquired journalist Emma Brockes’ new book, An Excellent Choice, which assesses the recent boom in women opting to be single mothers. Hannah Griffiths, publishing director at Faber, acquired the book from Sarah Ballard at United Agents. Faber and Penguin US will publish in spring... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sherman’s Books, with five stores in Maine, is about to add one more in Damariscotta. With the purchase, the mini-regional chain will also take a new name and become Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shops. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No Exit Press has acquired five books in a pre-Frankfurt Book Fair buying “spree”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Watkins Media has purchased Cygnus Book Club, adding it to the company’s portfolio which includes publishing imprints. Watkins, which bought Watkins, Nourish, Angry Robot from Osprey last year and which will soon launch an imprint called Repeater books, also owns the Watkins Bookshop in Cecil... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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3M has sold its North American and global library businesses—including 3M Cloud Library, 3M’s upstart ebook lending service—to global library solutions company Bibliotheca. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones has said its 'Buy Books For Syria' campaign has already been a “great success” after first few days. While the company could not yet give sales figures for how many titles customers had been bought under the appeal, Sandra Taylor, head of PR and events at Waterstones, said it... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ad blockers are wreaking havoc with the online revenue of newspapers, yet some groups continue to throw money around to acquire online rivals. What happens when boom turns to bust?On the one hand, the bad times are rolling for news on screens. Ad blocking is knocking a hole in revenue streams –... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dodo Ink has bought a literary erotic novella by Monique Roffey about a married couple whose relationship is going stale until they meet a mysterious femme fatale. UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, were acquired from Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook says scroll speed counts, and it turns out millennials are quicker with their thumbs than Gen X. They'll register an ad 2.5 times faster. Twitter, meanwhile, is adding a buy button. It’ll show up in sponsored tweets and anywhere there’s a link to the product. So far, five companies... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former president of an ex-gay ministry shares his story and why he moved away from the idea of a cure for homosexuality toward a more expansive, grace-filled Christianity in 'My Exodus.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German publisher, Axel Springer, agrees to buy a controlling stake in the US news website Business Insider for $343m (£226m). Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane has acquired an “extraordinary” new book on the Third Reich and drug use, which was published in Germany this month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta Books has acquired the rights to publish a new collection of poetry by "acclaimed" poet Ben Lerner, and a "powerful" new work by Cynan Jones. Meanwhile Portobello has bought a new novel from Jenny Erpenbeck, this year's winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German publishing giant Axel Springer is closing in on a deal to buy Business Insider, in a deal that would value the Web publisher at around $560 million. Sources familiar with the two companies think a transaction could close w ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corporation announced Wednesday that it was buying Unruly, a video ad technology company, in a deal worth up to $176 million that underscores the publishing company’s continued push to remake itself for the digital age. Fou ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Educational Development Corp. has acquired Demibooks Inc., a Chicago-based app developer whose main product is Demibooks Storytime, a curated marketplace for children's picture book apps. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orlando-based Bonnier Corp. — one of the largest special-interest publishing groups in America with more than 30 magazine brands — has purchased Learnwake.com, a wakeboarding instructional content site, for an undisclosed sum, the company announced Friday. Matt Hickman, vice president of brand... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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