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Open Road Inks Audio Deal with Audible
Open Road titles will be available for purchase at Audible.com starting in December.
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John Wiley to Acquire Deltak.edu for $220 Million
John Wiley continues to diversify its business portfolio, reaching an agreement to acquire Deltak.edu, for $220 million.
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In Build-Up to Frankfurt, Handful of Titles Generate Buzz
With the Frankfurt Book Fair just over two weeks away, some in the industry are feeling that it's a bit quiet on the deal-making front.
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Permanent Press, Blackstone Audio Ink Deal
The Permanent Press and Blackstone Audio have signed a deal which will result in all 14 novels set to be released by Permanent Press in 2013, also to be released in unabridged audio editions.
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Buzzed About Novel With Tie to Bon Iver Sells In Major Deal
In one of the notable pre-Frankfurt deals, buzzed-about debut novel Shotgun Lovesongs has sold to Katie Gilligan at St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne, who bought U.S. and Canadian rights in a high six-figure acquisition, beating out seven other bidders.
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Maria Campbell Named Scout for Danish House, People's Press
Maria B. Campbell Associates has been retained as the literary scouting firm for Denmark publisher People's Press.
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S&S Nabs Transmedia Project From Kevin Costner
Judith Curr, at Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint, bought world rights to a serialized project by Kevin Costner called The Explorers Guild.
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S&S Signs Clive Davis Memoir
Record producer Clive Davis has sold his memoir to Simon & Schuster. Eric Simonoff at William Morris Endeavor brokered the North American rights deal, closing at auction, with S&S publisher Jonathan Karp.
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Feminist Press Lands Pussy Riot E-book
The nonprofit, indie Feminist Press will be publishing the first e-book about the Russian punk band, Pussy Riot.
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Graphic Arts Books Buys Pruett Publishing Titles
Graphic Arts Books has acquired the trade titles and publishing rights of Pruett Publishing Company of Boulder, Col. The deal includes about 50 books which Graphic Arts will publish under its WestWinds Press imprint.
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Amazon Publishing Adds Over 1,000 Dorchester Titles
Following an auction that concluded August 28, Amazon Publishing has acquired the publication contracts of over 1,000 books from Dorchester Publishing.
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Open Road to Pub British Erotica Trilogy in North America
Open Road Media is publishing the British erotic series Eighty Days in North America. The trilogy was published by Orion in the UK in early August and has, per Open Road, become a bestseller and sparked big ticket bids for translation rights.
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Ecco To Publish McCullough Commencement Speech
Ecco won the rights to publish David MucCullough Jr.'s forthcoming book based on his commencement speech that went viral.
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Rinaldi Nabs Fitness Book By Cameron Diaz for New List at HC
Karen Rinaldi, who joined HarperCollins in March (after a stint at Rodale) to oversee a new list of health and wellness titles, has made one of her first acquisitions, buying a fitness/lifestyle book by actress Cameron Diaz.
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S&S Offers Paperless Royalty Statements
Simon & Schuster is going paperless with its royalty statements. The publisher, which streamlined its royalty process in February (among other things making the statement availabline online through its Agent Portal), is now offering authors the option of viewing all of their agency's statements that have been converted to the new format.
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McGraw-Hill Education Buys Key Curriculum
McGraw-Hill Education has acquired Key Curriculum, a privately held developer of mathematics learning technology in the K-12 and higher education markets. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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F+W Media Acquires Interweave
F+W Media has acquired Aspire Media, the parent company of Interweave, in a move the unites two of the country’s largest publishers of niche content for particular communities.
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Osprey Buys Duncan Baird Publishers
U.K.-based Osprey Group has acquired the assets and publishing business of Duncan Baird Publishers which includes Watkins Publishing.
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PW's New Deals Twitter Feed, @PW_Deals, Goes Live
While some of you fair readers may get your fix of deals news from the informal account @DeahlsDeals, launched by our Deals columnist, Rachel Deahl, we have now ported over to a more official feed for this coverage: @PW_Deals.
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HarperCollins Completes Nelson Purchase
After a lengthy review by the government, HarperCollins, parent company of Zondervan, has finally completed the purchase of Thomas Nelson.
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