Bloomsbury has acquired Oxford-based legal publisher Hart Publishing for £6.5 million in cash. The company says the unit is expected to “be immediately earnings enhancing.” The purchase is the latest step in their standing promise to boost academic and professional revenues to 50 percent of company sales within 5 years. It also nearly exhausts their cash resources for acquisitions. As of June 30, the company reported cash reserves of £8.5 million. The estimated per-book payouts to ebook consumers as a result of the legal settlements has been increased. Amazon has received attention for an informational post on their forums and email […]
Archives for September 2013
People, Etc.
Donald Winchester will join Watson, Little as a literary agent on October 1. Previously he was an agent at AP Watt, and his client list will move with him. Liz Egan notes on Twitter that she starts this week as books editor at Glamour Magazine. She was an editor at Amazon Publishing. Chairman of Constable & Robinson in the UK Nick Robinson, 58, died following a long illness. He started Robinson Publishing in 1983, and merged the company with Constable in 1999. There is a Facebook memorial page here. Hachette Book Group senior sales rep Conan Gorenstein, 64, died suddenly on September 1 at his […]
September “Best” Lists
As the big fall releases begin, Amazon and Barnes & Noble agree on 6 titles on their respective “best books of the month” lists: The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri (also Amazon’s Spotlight pick) Burial Rites, Hannah Kent (also Amazon’s Featured Debut, and one of our Fall/Winter Buzz Books) The Maid’s Version, Daniel Woodrell A House in the Sky, Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, Bob Shacochis Doctor Sleep, Stephen King Amazon includes another of our Fall/Winter Buzz Books, ALEX, by Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne, along with: Help for the Haunted, John Searles The Mushroom Hunters, Langdon […]