Books
Deep Vellum expands
Texas non-profit Deep Vellum Publishing, a specialist literary publisher, is to buy the assets of Illinois publisher Dalkey…
Simon & Schuster sale soon
The ViacomCBS sale of Simon & Schuster is nearing the end game with all bids apparently coming from…
Bertlesmann seeks US deal
The privately-owned German media company Bertelsmann is believed to be seeking to add ViacomCBS’s publishing house Simon &…
Top Hat buys textbooks
Top Hat, the Canadian ed tech company, is to buy 400 textbook titles from Nelson Education Ltd, also…
Trustbridge buys Walker Books
Trustbridge Global Media has acquired Walker Books, which includes the UK imprint of that name and US imprint…
Arcadia buys New Orleans books
Arcadia Publishing, local history publisher in the US, has acquired River Road Press, publisher based in and specialising…
McGraw-Cengage merger off
Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education’s goal of creating a major educational publisher to compete with market leader Pearson has…
Harper Collins buys Egmont books
News Corp subsidiary Harper Collins is to buy the book publishing (but not magazine) interests of Egmont, across…
SA publisher buys Icon Books
South African publisher Jonathan Ball, a subsidiary of Naspers’ Media 24, has acquired the UK non-fiction publishing company…
Bloomsbury buys Zed Books
Bloomsbury Publishing plc, the listed UK publisher of Harry Potter, has acquired the assets of Zed Books, of…