McEvoy Buys Packager The McEvoy Group, which owns Chronicle Books and is run by Chronicle chairman and CEO Nion McEvoy, has purchased Seattle-based book producer becker&mayer!. Founders Jim Becker and Andy Mayer will continue to run the 42-person (and growing) Seattle-based company, and Becker says it will be “business as usual” in their primary businesses of creating and producing books for a variety of publishers and retailers. Broadly speaking becker&mayer! and Chronicle will operate on an “arm’s length relationship,” Becker says, with no consolidation and no special offerings of packaged books to Chronicle. Chronicle will take over sales and distribution […]