Bloomsbury has acquired Osprey Publishing Ltd from private equity company Alcuin Capital Partners for £4.6m. Bloomsbury paid £3.2m in cash, and issued shares to the value of £1.4m to make the purchase, and will situate the business within Bloomsbury’s Special Interest Publishing, a part of the Adult division. The Osprey Group now consists of Osprey Military, Heritage and Custom Publishing, and British Wildlife Press. It published 212 titles last year in addition to British Wildlife magazine. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Following its acquisition of Taunton Press in December, the enthusiast magazine publisher Active Interest Media has sold the Taunton Books imprint to Abrams. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up—and which one might be right for you. Continue reading at Wired
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Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy and digital publisher CNET are teaming up to create a new retail media model, the companies said Thursday. The electronics retailer and the publisher are combining their ad inventory, allowing advertisers to buy across Best Buy Ads'... Continue reading at AdWeek
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Audio shared with the New York Times appears to record executives discussing purchase of the US books giant to feed into its large language modelsStaff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in order to procure books to train the company’s... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Publisher tells investors profits will exceed expectations, attributing this to release of House of Flame and Shadow The publisher Bloomsbury has lifted its annual profit forecasts after the latest novel from the fantasy author Sarah J Maas topped bestseller lists across the world, aided by fans... Continue reading at The Guardian
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As 'House of Flame and Shadow' hits number one in numerous markets around the world, publisher Bloomsbury predicts that total sales for the company will increase by 10% over last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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McCarthy joins the company from Ingram Publisher Services, where she has worked for eight years, most recently as v-p and general manager. She will take the helm of Bloomsbury USA in early April. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Dandelion's Tale by Margaret Anne Suggs is being published by Graffeg Books and helps children understand more about immigration. The post In Wales: Graffeg Buys World Rights to a Kids’ Book on Immigration appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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After a deal to sell Regnery Publishing appeared to be dead in November, Salem Media Group has signed an agreement sell the conservative publisher to Skyhorse Publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Pursuing its strategy of seeking to further leverage IP, China Literature, China's dominant online publishing and e-book company, has bought Tencent Animation and Comics for 600 million yuan (US$83.6 million). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Baker & Taylor’s Aman Kochar has embraced the wholesaler’s role as a conduit between libraries and publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Black Friday 2023 is finally upon us, and even though the sales seemed to start a little earlier this year, most of the deals are still going strong. Plus, we're seeing a few brand new deals that went live early this morning. We at Engadget care most about consumer... Continue reading at Engadget
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Want to learn more about other 33 1/3's latest titles? Here's a smattering of bestsellers from Bloomsbury's line of short books about popular music. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Want to learn more about other 33 1/3's latest titles? Here's a smattering of recent releases from Bloomsbury's line of short books about popular music. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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With each passing year, the phrase "Black Friday" becomes more of a misnomer. What was once a day of post-Thanksgiving special offers has become a month of sales promotions from retailers across the web. It's happening again in 2023: Target and Best Buy are already... Continue reading at Engadget
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The process of selling Simon & Schuster has been long and tumultuous, and was waylaid by an earlier antitrust suit. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Publisher to double dividend after demand grows for books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha ShannonBusiness live – latest updatesThe book publisher Bloomsbury has hit record profits in the first half of the year thanks in part to a boom in fantasy fiction driven by the American author Sarah J Maas,... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Sales were up 11% and profits increased 8% in the first half of the U.K.-based publisher's fiscal year. Sales in the U.S. were about $76 million, accounting for 46% of total revenue. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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With debts of £1bn, this isn’t some ordinary financial asset. The desire to own the papers says more about power than profitSo much has changed in the generation since the Telegraph newspapers and the Spectator magazine were last put up for sale in 2004, including how much money they make. Yet... Continue reading at The Guardian
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United Kingdom regulators were effectively the last hurdle stopping Microsoft from purchasing Activision Blizzard, in the biggest merger the video game industry has ever seen. That hurdle was cleared this morning as the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority relented to adjusted terms.... Continue reading at PC World
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