Hachette acquires SPCK’s Sheldon Press

Hachette UK has acquired the Sheldon Press, a specialist medical, mental health and self-help imprint of the Christian knowledge publisher SPCK. It will become part of John Murray Learning. The deal was completed following the signing of an agreement between SPCK’s board and Hachette UK on Wednesday (2nd January). The sum paid for the list was undisclosed.

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Hachette UK Acquires Mobile Game Studio Neon Play

Hachette UK announced today that it has acquired the British mobile game development studio Neon Play, which will operate as a standalone business under the Hachette umbrella. The move allows Hachette to publish authors on new platforms and the publisher to “pursue more generally our aim to generate rapid growth” on other platforms

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Hachette to sell books through Twitter

Hachette Book Group will start selling books straight from tweets, though it can’t be labeled more than an experiment for now: The publisher has partnered with digital distributor Gumroad to sell three gifty print books “for a limited time and in limited quantities” via the books’ authors’ tweets. For the full story read GIGAOM

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Authors should back Amazon in the battle with Hachette

A group of leading authors, including Donna Tartt, Stephen King and Malcolm Gladwell, has attempted to intervene in the dispute between publisher Hachette and retailing behemoth Amazon. Observers of the music industry are familiar with this tactic; prominent musicians are persuaded that the interests of music publishers are aligned with their own. The reality is very different.

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Amazon makes a direct offer to Hachette authors

David Naggar, VP of Kindle content and independent publishing, sent a letter to a few Hachette authors, literary agents and Authors Guild president Roxana Robinson over the weekend suggesting that “for as long as this dispute lasts, Hachette authors would get 100% of the sales price of every Hachette ebook we sell.”

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Amazon is blocking pre-orders on Warner Bros. DVDs

Book publisher Hachette apparently isn’t the only media company facing delayed shipping and unavailable pre-orders as it negotiates with Amazon over a new contract. Warner Bros. is facing similar actions on upcoming DVDs like The Lego Movie and 300: Rise of an Empire, the New York Times noted Tuesday. The DVD edition of The Lego […]

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Hodder & Stoughton acquires Quercus

The publisher that struck gold when it bought the rights to Steig Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy has been snapped up by Hodder & Stoughton, the British publisher behind Sir Alex Ferguson’s biography and Stephen King, John Le Carré and John Grisham

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Hodder & Stoughton acquires Quercus

The publisher that struck gold when it bought the rights to Steig Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy has been snapped up by Hodder & Stoughton, the British publisher behind Sir Alex Ferguson’s biography and Stephen King, John Le Carré and John Grisham

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