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PanelFly Launches Online Marketplace for Comic Book Distribution
Austin-based startup PanelFly has launched what it describes as the first online wholesale marketplace connecting retailers directly with comics publishers.
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WH Smith Bookstores Sold, Renamed TGJones
The 250-year-old U.K.-based chain of 480 outlets has been sold for £76 million to private equity firm Modella Capital and will operate under a new name. The WH Smith brand name and travel divisions were not included in the sale.
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Diamond Comic Distributors Has a Buyer. Now What?
After two months of intense speculation, the comics business finally has an answer to its biggest question of late: the bankrupt Diamond Comic Distributors is slated for acquisition by Alliance Entertainment, a new player in the sector.
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Globe Pequot Agrees to Buy Waterford Press
Globe's purchase of the Florida-based guidebook publisher is its first acquisition since its sister company, Rowman & Littlefield, was sold to Bloomsbury last May. Globe CEO Jed Lyons (pictured) said the purchase marks first of many niche acquisitions that the company hopes to make now that it is focused solely on the trade market.
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Zando Acquires Tin House
The respected literary press, founded in 2002, will become an imprint of the expanding independent publisher Zando, which was launched by former Crown publisher Molly Stern in 2020.
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The Book Business Prepares for Tariff Turmoil
New Trump Administration tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China have been delayed yet again, only adding to uncertainty among publishers and printers about what the levies could mean for their businesses.
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Readerlink Will Stop Distributing Mass Market Paperbacks at the End of 2025
The move, by the country's largest distributor of mass market paperbacks, is a severe blow to the format, which has seen steadily declining sales but is still the cheapest option for buying print books.
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Match Makers: How the Fisher Company Serves the Publishing M&A Market
Looking to acquire or sell a business in the publishing space? The Fisher Company can help. (Sponsored)
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Six Publishers Form the Stable Book Group
Chris Gruener and Keith Riegert have launched Stable Book Group. The company brings together four extant independent publishers—She Writes Press, Trafalgar Square Books, Ulysses Press, and VeloPress—with the newly established Galpón Press and Mountain Gazette Books.
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Bowker Rejoins ISNI Global Identification Effort
The ISBN services company has rejoined the ISNI International Agency, which provides tools meant to ensure accurate attribution for authors’ and other creatives’ works across the supply chain.
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