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Cengage Reaches Deal in Suit Over Subscription Service
The company has reached an agreement with two of its authors who had filed a suit alleging that the educational publisher's Cengage Unlimited subscription service will improperly cost them sales and royalty payments.
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HMH Closes Riverside Deal
The educational publishing division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has completed its previously announced divestiture of the clinical and standardized testing business to private equity firm Alpine Investors for $135 million.
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Bellevue Literary Press Goes Solo
BLP, which was a part of the New York University School of Medicine when its 'Tinkers' by Paul Harding won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, has completed its transition to an independent nonprofit literary house.
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Lion Forge Is A New Kind of Comics Publisher
Launched in 2012 as a digital startup, the St. Louis comics publisher is rapidly expanding and looking to take advantage of demographic changes in the North American comics marketplace.
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Hamilcar Publications, New Boxing Book Imprint, Launches This Fall
Hannibal Boxing, a Boston-based, boxing-focused media company founded by book business veteran Kyle Sarofeen and partner Andy Komack, will launch a boxing book imprint this fall.
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PRH Holiday Shipping Offer Ready; McIntosh Optimistic About the Season
Penguin Random House is gearing up for the upcoming holiday season with the announcement of its now annual seasonal rapid-shipping program for independent booksellers.
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PRH Bolsters We Need Diverse Books for Banned Books Week
Penguin Random House has partnered with the publishing diversity group on a social media campaign as a part of its support for Banned Books Week, held this year September 23-29.
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Two Years Post-merger, Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Are Going Strong
The three presses—and a fourth, the imprint Black Balloon—operate more like a confederation of presses than a publisher and its imprints. Here's a look behind the curtain.
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The New AAP Makes Its Debut
At its annual meeting last week, the association touted its shift in focus.
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IPG Sees Expansion as Key To Survival
The Independent Publishers Group’s acquisition of Midpoint Trade Books in late August was just the most recent move by CEO Joe Matthews to ensure that the Chicago-based company remains well positioned in a distribution business that continues to consolidate.
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Chad Post’s Open Letter Books Turns 10
A decade on, Chad Post’s translation-focused nonprofit publishing house, based at the University of Rochester, has released 103 titles from 44 countries and 26 languages.
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S&S Calls 'Fear' Bestselling Book In Company History
Simon & Schuster has reported that Bob Woodward's 'Fear: Trump In the White House' sold more than 1,100,000 copies through its first week on sale in all formats.
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Adaptive Books Acquires New Titles Plus the Zane Grey Estate
Founded in 2012 by veterans of the entertainment business, Adaptive Studios is an unusual business venture originally focused on repurposing moribund or abandoned movie scripts into new content for different media, including books, movies, and TV shows.
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The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2018
Pearson remained the biggest publisher on the planet.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2018: Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is the trade publishing division of the CBS Corporation, and publishes and distributes consumer books under imprints incluing Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria, Touchstone, Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Howard Books, Threshold Editions, and Free Press.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2018: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is a global learning company and a provider of Pre-K-12 content, services, and technology, serving more than 50 million students throughout the U.S. and in 150 countries worldwide.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2018: Cengage Learning Holdings II LP
Cengage Learning is a leading educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education and K–12, professional and library markets worldwide.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2018: HarperCollins
Harper Collins is a subsidiary of News Corp, a global media and information services company, comprising businesses across a range of media, including news and information services, cable network programming in Australia, digital real estate services, book publishing, digital education, and pay-TV distribution in Australia.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2018: John Wiley & Sons
Wiley's publishing segment provides scientific, professional, and education books and related content in print and digital formats, as well as test preparation services and course workflow tools, to libraries, corporations, students, professionals, and researchers.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2018: McGraw-Hill Education
McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC (MHGE) is a learning science company targeting the higher education, professional learning and information markets both in the US and internationally with content, tools and services delivered via digital, print and hybrid solutions.