The Global Media Business Weekly

Lerner Acquires Zest Books

Books. Lerner Publishing Group, of Minneapolis, has acquired the 12-year-old privately-owned Zest Books, which publishes young adult non-fiction books on entertainment, history, science, health, fashion, and lifestyle advice. Zest Books will become Lerner’s 13th imprint. Lerner, founded in 1959, is one of the largest independently-owned children’s book publishers in the US, releases 450 titles each year and has 5,000 titles in print.

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