• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register
Publishers Lunch logo Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
Login Sign Up
  • Personnel
  • AI
  • Compensation
  • Unions
  • Book Bans
  • New Releases
  • Earnings
  • The Trial
  • Archives
Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

M&A

November 5, 2024By Michael Cader

DK Acquires Canelo

November 5, 2024By Michael Cader

DK has acquired UK-based digital publisher Canelo, founded by Iain Millar, Michael Bhaskar and Nick Barreto in 2015. The company says the acquisition is part of a plan “to broaden its publishing scope, adding Canelo’s thriving fiction lines to its world-renowned illustrated, non-fiction and children’s fiction titles.” DK ceo Paul Kelly said, “This partnership is a strategic evolution for DK, integrating Canelo’s renowned author-first approach and proven genre expertise with our global platform. Together, we’ll engage new readers and support talented authors by creating compelling, accessible fiction and non-fiction with a reach that spans DK’s global distribution networks. We see […]

Login to read full story

October 10, 2024By Michael Cader

Minority Investor to Become Sole Owner of Germany’s Suhrkamp

October 10, 2024By Michael Cader

German businessman Dirk Möhrle will become the sole owner of 100-year-old publisher Suhrkamp on November 1, increasing the minority 39 percent stake in the company he has held since 2015, buying out the Siegfried and Ulla Unseld Family Foundation and the Ströher family. Jonathan Landgrebe’s position will “remain unaffected by these changes.” He writes: “I continue to take great pleasure in assuming the responsibilities that go along with the rich traditions of this publishing house. And I am happy to say that in Dirk Möhrle, we have someone by our side who has already proven himself to be a reliable, […]

Login to read full story

October 8, 2024By Erin Somers

Perfect Bound Technologies Acquires PubMatch

October 8, 2024By Erin Somers

Perfect Bound Technologies has bought rights and licensing marketplace PubMatch. Publishers using Perfect Bound will now be able to access to PubMatch’s network of rights professionals. The acquisition will also aid management of metadata, sales, files, contracts and royalty accounting. The companies expect the integration of PubMatch to be finished by Q4 of 2024. Chris Yeung, president and cto of Perfect Bound, said, “By integrating PubMatch’s rights management features with our existing platform, we aim to provide publishers with an even more comprehensive solution that covers every aspect of the publishing process, from manuscript to market.”

Login to read full story

September 3, 2024By Erin Somers

Lerner Publishing Group Acquires Sundance Newbridge

September 3, 2024By Erin Somers

Lerner Publishing Group has acquired Sundance Newbridge from Globe Pequot. The acquisition includes 3,600 titles, plus educational kits, and more. Sundance Newbridge will operate as a division of Lerner Publishing and its 14 employees will make the move along with the company. Paul Konowitch, president of Sundance Newbridge, will retire. The sale comes shortly after Globe Pequot’s owners sold the Rowman & Littlefield academic publishing business to Bloomsbury for $83 million. R&L acquired Sundance Newbridge from Haights Cross Communications in 2008. The company will continue to operate out of its Massachusetts office. Globe Pequot will continue to handle distribution through […]

Login to read full story

August 26, 2024By Erin Somers

S&S Australia to Acquire Affirm Press

August 26, 2024By Erin Somers

Simon & Schuster Australia has an agreement to acquire Australian independent publisher Affirm Press. In conjunction with Affirm, S&S plans to grow their local publishing publishing program and expand further into children’s. Affirm will maintain its brand independence, operating as a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster Australia. Employees will be able to enroll in S&S’s ownership program. The deal is “subject to customary closing conditions.” “We are immensely proud to have built Affirm Press to the company it is today,” said Affirm Press ceo and publishing director Martin Hughes in a release, “And excited at the opportunity to become part […]

Login to read full story

August 21, 2024By Erin Somers

Acquisitions: Mare Nostrum Group Buys Eurospan

August 21, 2024By Erin Somers

Mare Nostrum Group has acquired academic sales and distribution company Eurospan, including all asset and businesses, in a deal that will close August 14. Eurospan’s parent United Independent Distributors went into bankruptcy administration on July 24. Mare Nostrum Group’s distribution partner, Wiley, will take on the Eurospan client inventory in their facility in Bognor Regis. Wiley will also offer print-on-demand options to the group’s clients. Managing Director of Mare Nostrum Group David Pickering, said, “We are delighted to be able to offer the Eurospan team and their publisher clients a home at Mare Nostrum Group. In the past we have […]

Login to read full story
  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 49
  • Go to Next Page »

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login

Forgot Password Quick Pass User Login
Get Full Access
The Publishing Industry’s Essential Daily Read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Many Adidas Shareholders Want A New Chair, But Bertelsmann Chief Thomas Rabe Gets Another Year May 16, 2025 Fashion United
  • Connecticut House Approves Unconstitutional Bill that Would Lead Publishers to Stop Licensing eBooks to Libraries There May 16, 2025 CT Mirror
  • Amazon Cuts 100 Jobs in the Devices and Services Unit (Which Includes Kindle Readers) May 15, 2025 Reuters
  • Rushdie Withdraws As Claremont McKenna Graduation Speaker After Muslim Students Object May 15, 2025 LA Daily News
  • Spotify Connects Music to 33 1/3 Audiobooks May 13, 2025 Spotify
  • In Soft Art Market, Riggio Collection Garners $272 Million at Christie's, Below Estimates May 13, 2025 NYT
  • The New Yorker On The Fiction Being Published On Substack May 12, 2025 The New Yorker
  • Wiley Announces Deal As Perplexity's First Education AI Partner, For Institutions to Interact with Wiley's Content May 8, 2025 Press Release
  • Following Apple's Court Loss On Requiring Commissions for In-App Purchases, Kindle App is Updated with "Get Book" Purchase Button May 6, 2025 The Verge
  • BLUEY: THE SIGN, Book Based on Most-Watched Bluey Episode Ever, Publishes November 4 May 6, 2025 Press release
Publishers Marketplace logo

Contact Us

News

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Report News
  • Discuss
  • Classifieds
  • Rights Offerings

Deals

  • Report A Deal

Books

  • Buzz Books

Jobs

  • Job Board
  • Privacy Policy Terms of Use