Local Firm Bids on Book Distributor
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A book-distribution company owned by Lanham-based Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group has stepped in with an eleventh-hour bid to take over a larger competitor.
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The sales numbers are encouraging as this outdoors retailer expands.
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Riverdeep Inc., an Irish educational software publisher, is close to a deal to buy U.S. textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin for about $3.5 billion including debt, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday.
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The firm that owns the Philadelphia Inquirer says it is interested in mounting a rival bid for the Dow Jones.
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ST. LOUIS The newspaper publisher Pulitzer Inc. has said that company officials are considering a possible sale of the firm to improve shareholder value.
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New book will be on the children's list, not the best sellers.
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Company beefs up online service for shipping business information between firms over the Net.
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O.J. Simpson's scuttled book about the murder of his ex-wife popped up for sale on eBay on Wednesday and attracted a top bid of more than $1,600 before it was removed.
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Less than five years after leaving Houghton Mifflin Co. and starting Cambium Learning Inc., an education company, veteran Boston publishing executive and deal maker Nader F. Darehshori has sold his new company to a buyout firm and is planning another start - up.
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The publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has agreed to sell to Lee Enterprises.
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The Chandler family, which long owned The Los Angeles Times, is said to have begun talks with private equity firms about a joint bid for part of its current owner, the Tribune Company.
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Random House Publishing Group, the  world's largest book publisher, is planning to test selling  individual chapters of a popular book to gauge reader demand,  according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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The home improvement giant said it's considering selling its wholesale supply business.
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Abebooks.com, one of the world's most   visited online book retailers, is trying to develop a more   sophisticated way to recommend titles from its catalog of 100   million books to match tools available to music fans.
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The London house where the Peter Pan classic children's novels are believed to have been written is up for sale, an estate agent said Monday.
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Firm is in hot seat for selling subprime securities to a Massachusetts city.
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Auction company is apparently drawn to the classifieds model pioneered by community resource site.