05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
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.
04/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
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.
04/09/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group has acquired the book publishing assets of Fairview Press. About 100 titles were included in the purchase.
02/15/2012 @ 10:00AM
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.
02/10/2012 @ 12:00AM
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.
01/18/2012 @ 10:00AM
Since PW published a story about Brittany Geragotelis's novel Life's a Witch, the self-published author has been overwhelmed with inquiries from publishers, foreign rights agents and TV and film producers.
01/03/2012 @ 10:00AM
Scholastic has acquired Learners Publishing, a Singapore-based publisher of supplemental learning materials for English-language learners.
01/03/2012 @ 12:00AM
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.
12/13/2011 @ 12:00AM
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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