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Archives for July 2015

Merger Negotiations, Italian Style

July 31, 2015
By Michael Cader

After a 10-hour meeting, the board of Italy’s RCS Media Group provided a polite, positive but inconclusive step forward on Mondadori’s bid to purchase RCS’s book publishing division — a process which began in February. The board “unanimously agreed to mandate the chief executive officer to proceed with the negotiations and the definition of the contractual terms,” […]

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People, Etc.

July 31, 2015
By Sarah Weinman

Kathleen Schmidt will join Running Press as vp, director of marketing and publicity on August 10, reporting to Kristen Kiser and working out of the company’s Philadelphia offices. Previously director of publicity at Perseus’s joint-venture line Weinstein Books, Schmidt will continue to handle corporate communications for the Perseus Books Group as well. The American Booksellers […]

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New Monthly Bookseller Picks

July 31, 2015
By Michael Cader

Costco’s Pennie’s Pick for August is Paula McLain‘s just-published Circling the Sun. The book was also the ABA’s August Indie Next No. 1 selection. Now the September Indie Next List is up, led by Bill Clegg’s debut novel Did You Ever Have A Family. They add a belated selection for Ta-Nehisi Coates’s already-published bestseller Between the World and Me […]

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Lagardere Reports Publishing Declines, Particularly For Hachette US

July 30, 2015
By Sarah Weinman

Lagardere reported first-half of the year results after the close of the market in France on Thursday. Sales at Lagardere Publishing were 547 million euros in the second quarter (up 37 million euros), down 3.4 percent on a like-for-like basis for the quarter but up 7.1 percent in actual results on the strength of the US […]

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Market Mulls Barnes & Noble Split

July 30, 2015
By Michael Cader

Barnes & Noble officially spins off Barnes & Noble Education as a separate, publicly-traded company next Monday, when we’ll start to get a clearer view of how investors value the two distinct parts. The company itself declared BNED worth 38.7 percent of the whole — since each BKS stockholder gets .632 shares of the new […]

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People, Etc.

July 30, 2015
By Sarah Weinman

At Simon & Schuster, Sarah Reidy has been promoted to associate director of publicity. Princeton University Press announced a number of promotions. Eric Henney has been promoted to associate editor, physical and earth sciences, while Ryan Mulligan moves up to assistant editor. Shaquona Crews has been appointed director of contracts, while Kim Williams has been […]

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