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Europeans Approve Penguin-Random House Merger
The march toward approval of the Random House, Penguin Group merger continued Friday with the news that the European Commission has approved the deal without conditions.
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HC Canada Buys Some Wiley Canada Titles
After selling a large group of titles to Turner Publishing yesterday, John Wiley’s Wiley Canada division has sold selected consumer titles to HarperCollins Canada.
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Wiley Sells Pets, Crafts and General Interest Titles to Turner
Under the deal, Turner acquired the digital and print assets for approximately 1,500 Wiley titles, including such brands as Howell Book House and Baseball Prospectus.
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Amazon's Goodreads Purchase Draws Raves, Pans on Twitter
Goodreads members and the book community on Twitter responded vociferously to the acquisition of Goodreads by Amazon.com, offering both sober analysis and an outpouring of mordant, gloomy wit about the future of the social reading site.
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Sale of McGraw-Hill Education Completed
McGraw-Hill Education has been officially separated from its former parent company as McGraw-Hill Cos announced Friday afternoon that it has completed the sale of MHE to Apollo Global Management LLC for $2.4 billion in cash.
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Penguin, Random Merger Gets Okay from New Zealand
New Zealand is the third country to give its approval to the Penguin, Random House merger.
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University Press of Florida Buys Seaside Publishing
University Press of Florida (UPF) acquired Florida-based Seaside Publishing, known for over two decades of publishing cook and travel books.
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Cavendish Square Buys Library Titles from Marshall Cavendish
Cavendish Square, a new educational publishing company founded by Roger Rosen, has signed a deal to acquire the assets of Marshall Cavendish’s North American library operation.
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Grey House Taking Over H.W. Wilson Line
Grey House Publishing will become the publisher of the print editions of the H.W. Wilson product line under a new exclusive license between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Grey House.
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DoJ Clears Random House, Penguin Merger
The merger of Random House and Penguin came one step closer to completion Thursday when the U.S. Department of Justice gave its approval to the deal, without asking for any conditions.
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DailyLit, Plympton Join Forces
DailyLit, which began as a service in 2006 to e-mail short installments of books for consumers to read on different mobile devices, is being merged with Plympton, a digital publishing house dedicated to serialized fiction founded by journalist Jennifer 8. Lee and the novelist Yael Goldstein Love.
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Distribution: Bookmasters Signs Spanish Publisher
Bookmasters has signed an agreement with Promoción Popular Cristiana (PPC) to begin distributing their Spanish-language books in the United States.
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D&M's New Society Imprint Sold
Another imprint of bankrupt D&M Publishers has found a new home with New Society Publishers being re-acquired by its previous owners and D&M creditors Chris and Judith Plant and Carol Newell of Renewal Partnersreall.
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Najafi Companies Sells Direct Brands
Four-and-half years after acquiring Bookspan and Columbia House from Bertelsmann, the Najafi Companies has sold its majority interest in those businesses’ parent company, Direct Brands, to Pride Tree Holdings. In its announcement, Najafi Cos. said the deal was done in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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Templar Publishing Buys Piccadilly Press
In an important children’s deal in the U.K., Piccadilly Press, the children’s book publisher founded by Brenda Gardner 29 years ago, has been acquired by Templar Publishing, the children’s publisher owned by Bonnier Publishing Ltd.
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Bertelsmann May Reduce RTL Holdings
Bertelsmann has announced it is considering reducing its 93% stake in broadcaster RTL Group, though it will continue to hold a stake of about 75%.
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Premier Digital in Deal with Ingram
Start-up print and e-book publisher Premier Digital Publishing has entered into a strategic alliance with Ingram Content Group, for the management and distribution of its print and digital content that it will start releasing this month.
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Fate of Remaining Wiley Consumer Line Will Be Decided Soon
With John Wiley having sold the largest, and most valuable, properties of its consumer publishing program to Google and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the company is likely to close down the remaining businesses by the end of its fiscal year in April if no deals can be reached, executives told analysts in a conference call discussing second quarter results.
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Worthy Buys Ellie Claire, Other Assets from Guideposts
Worthy Publishing has purchased the Ellie Claire Gift and Paper Expressions imprint from Guideposts, including the Ellie Claire brand and product lines. The deal also includes the acquisition of all nonfiction gift and inspirational books from Guideposts’ Summerside Press.
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B'mann Completes RH Mondadori Deal
Following approval from Spanish anti-trust authorities, Bertelsmann has taken over 100% ownership of Random House Mondadori, buying out the 50% stake from Mondadori.
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