Continuing with its mission of bolstering its academic publishing division, Bloomsbury announced it has acquired Fairchild Books, which publishes textbooks and educational resources for students of fashion, merchandising, retailing and interior design. The deal was for $6.5 million in cash, which Bloomsbury will pay out in three annual installments. Bloomsbury’s relationship with Fairchild goes back to 2006, as it has been the company’s ex-North American distributor through its Berg imprint; in addition Bloomsbury’s presence in the visual arts space grew when it acquired Berg Publishers in 2008, launched the Berg Fashion Library in 2010 and acquired a fashion photography archive […]
Archives for April 2012
Hometown Paper Criticizes Amazon On Changed Academic Discounts and Modest Philanthropy
The Seattle Times offers up two slabs of red meat for those who worry about Amazon’s growing power and how they wield it in introducing a four-part series on the company. The lengthy business piece includes only these two morsels of news: academic and nonfiction publisher McFarland and professional and academic publisher Berkshire Publishing Group have also declined to accept Amazon’s push for moving academic publishers from their traditional short discount to more of a trade discount schedule. McFarland, which appears to use the Advantage program, declined to accept a proposed 45 percent discount as of January 1. (The publisher […]
People
Kelly Snowden joins Ten Speed Press as associate manager, publicity and marketing, cookbooks. She spent the previous six years at Food & Wine Magazine, most recently as staff assistant features editor. In addition, Sarah Pulver has joined the imprint as designer, having most recently been a design fellow at Chronicle Books, and Ashley Matuszak joins as marketing assistant. Erin Buterbaugh joins MacGregor Literary as a literary agent, focusing on children’s books, YA, lifestyle titles, cookbooks, the arts, and some select fiction. The WSJ continues its series of articles praising Random House, this time focused on Gina Centrello‘s successful leadership of […]