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Courier Corp. Buys FastPencil
Book manufacturer Courier Corp. has acquired FastPencil, the self-publishing platform that in mid April signed an agreement to support Barnes & Noble’s Nook Press, the revamped version of PubIt!.
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Rowman & Littlefield Buys Down East Book Assets
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group has acquired the book assets of Down East Enterprises, the Rockport, Me. publisher of books and magazines about all things Maine.
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Canada Clears Penguin, Random House Merger
Canada is the most recent country to approve the Random House, Penguin merger without asking for any changes to the deal.
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F+W Media Adds to Sewing Vertical
F+W Media, Inc. has made two deals in the last week that strengthen its presence in what the company calls the craft and sewing vertical.
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ICM Partners Signs with Argo Navis
ICM Partners has become the latest agency to sign with Perseus Books’ author publishing program, Argo Navis.
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Skyhorse, Start Buy Underland Press
As they await word on whether their bid for Night Shade Books assets is approved, Skyhorse Publishing and Start Publishing have acquired another science fiction and fantasy house, Underland Press.
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PubMatch, CCC Partner to Offer Online Rights Service
International rights portal PubMatch this week announced a partnership with the Copyright Clearance Center to create an automated, Web-based exchange for rights deals, powered by the CCC’s popular RightsLink transaction engine.
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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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