Nan Vermylen Thornton will join Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as an agent. Previously, she was in-house counsel practicing copyright law at Pearson Education. The January Pennie’s Pick at Costco is BOSTON GIRL by Anita Diamant. More Best of 2014 lists keep coming in as the year draws to a close. Vanity Fair offers “11 Best Books […]
Archives for December 2014
BN Buys Back Pearson Shares in Nook, Too
When Barnes & Noble bought back Microsoft’s 16.8 percent stake in Nook Media earlier this month for $125 million in cash and stock, they gave Pearson an option to sell back their Nook shares as well. In a filing with the SEC Tuesday morning, BN announced they purchased Pearson’s stake on December 22 for $13.75 million and 602,927 shares […]
Osprey Is Sold to Bloomsbury
The unwinding of Osprey Publishing is complete with the announcement Monday that the company has been sold to Bloomsbury for £4.6 million in cash and stock. (Of that, £3.2 million is in cash, paid to private equity owners Alcuin Capital.) Bloomsbury says the business had sales of £7 million in 2013, over half of which comes from […]
A Holiday Free Trial At PM
As work quiets down for the end of the year, we are offering one of our infrequent free trial periods at PublishersMarketplace.com. The daily newsletters will taper down to “as needed” for the next week or two, but any news and deal reports we have will still be added regularly at PM. Plus this is […]
Nearly Final: Doerr Still Leads Among the Best of the Best Books of 2014
We’ll be back one more time in early 2015 once all of the final “best books of the year” lists are published (the latest is James Wood’s favorites), but as we near the end, our aggregated ranking of the best of all the “best books of 2014” has — as usual — yielded two quite […]
People: Peter Wiley to Retire from Board Chair
John Wiley chairman Peter Booth Wiley announced that he intends to retire from that position as of September 2015, when his term expires, though he will maintain his board seat. Current director and former group president at Pitney Bowes Matthew Kissner has been nominated to take over as chair. Peter Wiley has held the position […]