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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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LexisNexis Buys Sheshunoff and A.S. Pratt
LexisNexis Legal & Professional together with Reed Elsevier Properties SA has acquired the publishing brands and businesses of Sheshunoff and A.S. Pratt from the Thompson Media Group.
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AAP, AEP to Merge
The school division of the Association of American Publishers has agreed to merge with the Association of Educational Publishers, a move that unites two of the largest organizations that deal with publishing for the K-12 market.
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Penguin, RH Merger Remains on Track
In announcing higher first quarter profits on flat revenue, Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe said the company remains confident that the merger of Random House with Penguin Group will take place in the "early" part of the second half of 2013.
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Najafi Makes Investment in MeeGenius
Najafi Companies has invested in MeeGenius, the digital platform for selling children's books. Although the amount of the investment wasn’t disclosed, Najafi said it is now "a significant strategic shareholder of MeeGenius."
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New Report Says Microsoft Won't Buy Nook Media
The Web site Insider Monkey posted a story Monday, quoting a “highly placed source inside Microsoft” saying that the company has no plans to buy Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media group.
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