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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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Crown Reasserts Chopra Connection After Amazon Deal
Deepak Chopra may have signed to do a book with Amazon, but Random House wants everyone to know that the author is still, for the most part, well, a Random House author.
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HarperCollins to Acquire Thomas Nelson
In a deal that will unite the country’s two largest religion book publishers, HarperCollins, parent company of Zondervan, has reached an agreement to acquire Thomas Nelson for an undisclosed price. HC expects to close the purchase before the end of the year.
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Bill O'Reilly Signs New Two-Book Deal With Holt
Conservative pundit and bestseller Bill O'Reilly has re-upped with his new publisher, Henry Holt. O'Reilly's current bestseller, Killing Lincoln, was published by Holt late last month and has gone on to become a bestseller.
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Frankfurt's Buzzed-About Swedish Trilogy Nabbed By Crown
The Swedish trilogy that was the talk of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the first book of which is called The Andalucian Friend, has a U.S. publisher. Crown closed a three-book deal for Alexander Soderberg's debut, along with Harvill Secker in the U.K. and Knopf Canada.
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HarperCollins Buys Newmarket Press
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to the majority of the titles published by Newmarket Press, the independent New York City publisher started in 1981 by Esther Margolis.
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