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Atria Inks Self-Pub'd Bestseller McGuire to Two-Book Deal
Jamie McGuire, who self-published the novel Beautiful Disaster, has signed a two-book deal with Atria, after the S&S imprint emerged as the winner of a bidding war.
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Warner Bros. to Buy Alloy Entertainment
Less than two years after Alloy Entertainment was acquired by an investor group led by ZelnickMedia, Warner Bros. Television Group has reached an agreement to buy the company in a deal expected to close by the third quarter.
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Argo Navis Adds Three Agenices
The Perseus Books Group's digital distribution platform for authors, Argo Navis, has signed three new literary agencies.
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ICM Agents Complete Firm Buyout, Change Name to ICM Partners
International Creative Management, the agency with strongholds on the West and East coasts, has finalized a buyout of the firm by its top executives.
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Shambhala Buys Snow Lion Publications
Shambhala Publications has acquired Snow Lion Publications, a purchase that will add more than 300 new titles to its list of books on spirituality, psychology, health and lifestyle. Snow Lion, based in Ithaca, NY, specializes in Tibetan Buddhist books, including over two dozen titles by the Dalai Lama.
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London Book Fair 2012: Open Road Launches International Program with Mondadori
Open Road Integrated Media has teamed with Italian publishing giant Mondadori to digitize, distribute and market English-language e-book versions of titles from Mondadori's catalogue. Mondadori is Open Road’s first foreign publishing partner.
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Rowman & Littlefield Buys Fairview Press
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group has acquired the book publishing assets of Fairview Press. About 100 titles were included in the purchase.
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Deals: Week of February 20, 2012
LBYR Gets Light as a ‘Feather’ and more.
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Wicks Group Buys Bendon Publishing
New York private equity firm The Wicks Group has purchased a majority share in Bendon Publishing, a leading purveyor of coloring, activity, and other mass market book formats.
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Andrea Walker Nabs Debut By Buzzed-About Up-And-Comer, Elliott Holt
In 2007 New York Magazine named Elliott Holt one of the "writing stars of tomorrow." This week, William Morris Endeavor agent Bill Clegg sold her first novel, for six figures, to Andrea Walker at Penguin Press.
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Scholastic Buys Singapore Supplemental House
Scholastic has acquired Learners Publishing, a Singapore-based publisher of supplemental learning materials for English-language learners.
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Casemate Acquires Oxbow Books
Casemate Publishers has acquired the U.K. –based Oxbow Books Ltd. in a deal that also includes Oxbow’s The David Brown Book Company headquartered in Oakville, Ct.
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Clain Makes First Buy at Little, Brown
In her first acquisition as editor-in-chief of Little, Brown, Judy Clain pre-empted world rights to the debut novel from Peggy Riley, Amity and Sorrow.
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Licensing Hotline: December 2011
This month's licensing news roundup features three new properties in Random House's Nickelodeon publishing program, Macmillan's Rastamouse license, Sterling's Arthur Christmas books, Nordstrom's Busytown holiday shop, and many more licensing deals.
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Seven Stories Lands Book By 'Adbusters' Co-Founder
Seven Stories Press has announced that it will release Adbusters publisher Kalle Lasn's Occupy Econ 101 in June 2012.
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Penguin Buys Stake in Brazilian Publisher
The Penguin Group has acquired a 45% stake in Companhia das Letras, a 25-year-old publishing house founded by Luiz Schwarcz in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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YA Author with Huge Wattpad Fan Base Tries Self-Publishing
Despite attracting 13 million readers to her serialized novel, Life's a Witch, on the online writing community Wattpad, aspiring young adult novelist Brittany Geragotelis decided to self-publish, instead of taking the conventional literary route.
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InterVarsity Press Buys Biblica Books
InterVarsity Press has acquired Biblica Books, the book-publishing arm of Biblica Worldwide, a 200-year-old ministry that translates, publishes, and distributes Bibles to more than 55 countries. The deal is expected to close by the end of the calendar year, with IVP gaining 170 backlist and almost 30 new Biblica Books titles.
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O'Reilly Media, 'PW' in TOC Agreement
O’Reilly Media and Publishers Weekly have reached an agreement through which PW will work with O’Reilly to promote and extend the reach of a variety of O’Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing Conference and events. As part of the agreement, PW subscribers and readers will also receive unique content.
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Equity Firm Buys Media Source
Media Source Inc., parent company of Library Journal, School Library Journal, Horn Book and Junior Literary Guild, has been acquired by a group of private equity firms led by RLJ Equity Partners, which was joined by 21st Century Group and New Canaan Funding Mezzanine.
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