It has been another busy year of mergers and acquisitions in the publishing space, though not with the same volume that we saw in 2014. But there have been billions of dollars of transactions already, with no shortage of deals of scale — including the sales of OverDrive and Scholastic’s educational technology and services business, along with Donnelley’s winning bid for Courier and the not-yet-revealed but surely sizable sum for Pearson’s Family Education Network, topped in value by the quiet, cashless merger of Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science. The formal Mondadori offer we report on today to buy […]
