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TAN Books Buys Neumann Press
TAN Books, the religious book publisher that is a division of Saint Benedict Press, has acquired Neumann Press, a Minnesota publisher of Catholic titles for children and adults.
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Mackin, Random House Partner
Mackin Educational Resources has partnered with Random House to offer its digital catalog of 36,000 titles of new and popular e-books to school libraries across the country.
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Ingram Adds Russia to Its Global Connect Network
The Ingram Content Group is expanding its Global Connect program to Russia, signing an agreement with the Russian media giant EE Media.
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PRH Takes Ownership of Penguin India
Penguin Random House has officially announced the completion of its purchase of Ananda Publishers Private Limited’s minority stake in Penguin Books India.
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Start Publishing Acquires Salvo Press
In the latest in a series of acquisitions by Start Publishing, the company has purchased Salvo Press, an independent house specializing in science fiction, fantasy and horror.
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Hardie Grant Buys Quadrille
Australian-based Hardie Grant has bought Quadrille, the U.K. illustrated publisher run by Alison Cathie. BookBrunch reports that Cathie and her management team will remain in place.
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PubMatch in Deal with Indie Author Group
The U.K-based Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) has reached an arrangement with PubMatch, the international book rights network, providing ALLi members access to PubMatch’s premium range of membership services at a discounted rate.
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Nielsen To Buy Two R. R. Bowker Book Tracking Services
In a move that enhances its global print and e-book tracking and sales analysis capabilities, Nielsen is acquiring book data vendor R. R. Bowker’s Business Intelligence and Commerce Solutions product units.
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Datamatics & PMG to Merge Digital Publishing and E-retail Services
The as-yet-unnamed combined entity will become one of the world’s largest companies in this area with 3,000 employees and associates across ten locations around the globe.
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Elsevier Buys Woodhead Publishing
Elsevier has acquired Woodhead Publishing Limited, the U.K.-based publisher of professional content in the fields of materials science, food science, engineering, energy & environmental technology, textile technology and biomedicine.
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Absorbing the Bezos-'Post' Deal
After assuring themselves that it wasn’t an Onion headline, those working in the media, political and book industries began digesting the news that Amazon founder and chairman Jeff Bezos paid $250 million to acquire The Washington Post. Although Bezos purchased the Post from his personal funds, there are few people who believe that Bezos won’t find a way for the newspaper and Amazon to work together.
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Distribution: IPG Adds Six
IPG will take over print and digital distribution for Minedition, Michael Neugebauer Publishing Ltd. beginning September 1. Its Trafalgar Square Publishing division will add five clients effective January 1, 2014.
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Distribution: Grove Stays with PGW
Grove Atlantic has extended its 19-year distribution agreement with PGW, signing a multi-year extension for both print and digital distribution.
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Wiley Got $1 Million for Final Consumer Piece
In its 10-K filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, John Wiley noted that it received about $1 million and future royalty considerations for the final pieces of its consumer book division that it divested this spring.
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Publishers' Graphics Acquires Corley Printing
Publishers’ Graphics, a Chicagoland book manufacturing company specializing in digital POD and short-run printing for the trade, specialty, and self-publishing markets, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Corley Printing.
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Random House, Penguin Merger Completed
With all government approvals in, Bertelsmann and Pearson moved quickly to complete the merger of Random House and the Penguin Group, finalizing the deal July 1.
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Hachette Book Group Acquires the Hyperion Adult Imprint
Disney is selling the majority of Hyperion titles to Hachette Book Group. HBG will acquire more than 1,000 adult backlist titles plus another 25 books that it will release over the next few seasons. Disney will retain rights to the most media-related titles.
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Legato Publishers Group Signs 20 New Clients
The Legato Publishers Group, a new unit at the Perseus Group’s PGW distribution subsidiary, announced the signing of 20 publisher distribution clients.
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Open Road Expands Distribution Business
To expand its recently launched distribution-only business, Open Road Media has started distributing a number of backlist titles from one of its first content marketing clients, Albert Whitman & Company.
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News Corp. Split Set for June 28
As expected, the News Corp. board of directors has approved the division of the media giant into two separate companies.
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