Books
RB audio buys in Germany
US-based RB Media, a large audiobook producer, has acquired German audio publisher ABOD. ABOD was established in 2012…
Chicago Review buys Interlude
Chicago Review Press has bought the LGBTQ+ fiction publisher Interlude Press including the young adult imprint Duet Books.…
Bloomsbury buys ABC-CLIO
Bloomsbury, the listed UK book publisher, has bought US academic publishing company ABC-CLIO for $22.9m. ABC-CLIO was founded…
Open Road Media sold
A new investor group has been formed and has acquired Open Road Integrated Media in a deal worth…
Oasis buys Enclave books
Oasis Family Media, the Illinois-based audio publisher, has bought Enclave Publishing, a publisher of Christian science fiction and…
Storytel buys $135m Audiobooks
Audio streaming company Storytel is to buy the KKR-owned Audiobooks.com in a deal valuing the company at $135m.…
PRH / Schuster merger test
The merger of two major publishing houses, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, has been referred to…
Nextory acquires Youboox
Swedish company Nextory, a book streaming service, has acquired French book streaming company Youboox which gives its subscribers…
Vivendi ‘to buy’ Lagardère
French media company Vivendi may win control of Lagardère which owns book publisher Hachette Livre, to sit alongside…
Quercus acquires Arcadia
UK-based Quercus has acquired the London publisher Arcadia Books. The company was founded by Gary Pulsifer in the…