Three buys for Unsung Stories

Red Squirrel imprint Unsung Stories has acquired world rights for three titles due for publication in 2017. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sherman’s to Buy Maine Coast Book Shop

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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'100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon

When sickly Bostonian Edward J. O'Brien put together the first "Best American Short Stories" anthology in 1915, short stories were considered junky pop culture. He was hoping that his project would elevate the short-story form. He had no idea he was launching a series that would last a century... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pre-FBF buying 'spree' at No Exit Press

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 buys Cygnus Book Club

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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Buckley wins BBC Short Story prize

Jonathan Buckley has won the  £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’.   This evening (6th October) he was presented with the prize of £15,000 by this year’s Chair of Judges Allan Little at a ceremony held in the BBC’s Radio Theatre in London. The news was announced live on BBC... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Buy Books for Syria campaign a 'great success'

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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3M Sells Library Business to Bibliotheca; ProQuest Buys Ex Libris

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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Eclipse looms for newspaper giants buying a place in the digital sun

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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Digiday Digest: Scroll speed, buy buttons and vinyl’s staying power

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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Medium Raises $57 Million for the ‘Best Stories and Ideas on the Internet’

Medium, the publishing platform hatched by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, has raised $57 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.   It’s the three-year-old company’s second funding round, and people familiar with Medi ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bild owner to buy Business Insider

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 buys Third Reich drugs book

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/Portobello buys three

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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Axel Springer Wants to Buy Business Insider for Around $560 Million

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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EDC Buys Demibooks

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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News Corporation to Buy Unruly for Up to $176 Million

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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10 Great Comics Short Story Collections

While many cartoonists can be defined by a singular book or series, collections of their shorter, sometimes lesser-known works can more intimately reflect their artistic sensibilities. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Corp. buys Learnwake.com

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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Freight Books buys Cargo Publishing

Scottish publisher Freight Books has acquired fellow Glasgow-based independent publisher Cargo Publishing. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, was completed last week, with authors informed this week. Gill Tasker and Helen Sedgwick, the directors of Cargo, will work for Frieght on a consultancy... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-11 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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