Acquisitions: Lakeside Book Company Acquires Bradford & Bigelow
Lakeside Book Company has acquired Bradford & Bigelow, a printer specializing in books for K-12, higher education, and trade publishing. B&B will operate as a division of Lakeside Book, with its Newburyport, Massachusetts and Newton, New Hampshire manufacturing and fulfillment facilities continuing to operate with their current teams and management. Lakeside writes in a release, “Existing customers at B&B will benefit from access to increased print, store, and sell options with one partner operating across North America through Lakeside Book’s platform. Through the Lakeside Book PAKSmart offering, B&B customers will also gain access to international manufacturing solutions, custom packaging, kitting, […]
A Day to Remember
I have a reasonably good track record of seeing a little bit in the future, but today marks one occasion that was completely beyond my conception. Exactly 25 years ago, on November 2, 2001 according to site records, a small miracle began in earnest. We turned on the internet lights, opened a door, and after an initial trial period (commencing, inauspiciously a couple of weeks after the shock of 9/11), some of you showed up enthusiastically, and let us start running monthly credit card charges for our brand new website: PublishersMarketplace.com. Over time, you told friends, and colleagues, and clients, […]
Ingram Steps in For Distribution, Printing in Peak Season
As publishers struggle with continued supply issues and libraries deal with the fallout from Baker & Taylor’s closure, Ingram has picked up the slack in distribution and production for bookstores and libraries. In an interview with PL, Ingram chief content officer Phil Ollila assured us that the company is well-positioned going into a high sales period. “We don’t expect that it’s going to be a perfect holiday season, but we don’t see any major supply chain disruptions from the things that we can control at Ingram,” Ollila said. Orders are “substantially bigger” than they were last year at this time, in […]
Congressional Leaders Correct DOJ; WME Explains AI Licensing
Southern District of New York Judge Sidney Stein’s docket is bursting with dozens of amicus briefs in the copyright infringement lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft that are now fully briefed for a ruling on summary judgment. Most of them are position papers of one kind or another but two stood out to as worth noting for the record. One, from Congressmen Jamie Raskin, Jerrold Nadler and Hank Johnson, who serve on the House subcommittee with jurisdiction over copyright policy, pushes back on the Trump Department of Justice’s bizarre and non-legal “statement of interest” filed in September asking the court to […]