Bloomsbury Acquiring Walker Publishing
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, the British publisher of the smash Harry Potter series, said Wednesday it has agreed to buy Walker Publishing Co. Inc., which publishes adult nonfiction and children's books.
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Shares in Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury plunge 30% after the firm issues a profit warning.
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News International, the publisher of the Sun, Times and News of the World newspapers, is to relocate its print works from Wapping to Enfield in north London.
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NEW YORK -- Dow Jones &amp; Co., the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, will buy MarketWatch Inc. for about $519 million in a deal that would end a monthlong bidding war for the online financial news and information provider.
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The book retailing superstore has new chapters worth telling.
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Another book publisher makes inroads toward the digital side of content.
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Riverdeep Inc., an Irish educational  software publisher, agreed to buy U.S. textbook publisher  Houghton Mifflin for about $1.75 billion in cash and the  assumption of about $1.61 billion in net debt, the companies  said on Wednesday.
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Boston-based publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. said yesterday that it will buy Harcourt Education and two other parts of London-based Reed Elsevier PLC for $4 billion to strengthen and diversify its educational publishing business.
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The final installment of the Harry Potter series is on track to break previous sales records as its British publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, said yesterday that export orders are already 17 percent ahead of the total overseas sales of the last book.
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ODL, Inc. of Zeeland, a manufacturer of doorglass units and other products, has acquired the British firm Viewlite International Ltd.
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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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Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury unveils plans to eke extra revenue from JK Rowling's phenomenon.
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The Washington Post Company said yesterday that it had purchased Slate, an online magazine owned by Microsoft. The sale completes Slate&#39;s transformation from an experiment in the new media in 1996 to a respected brand name in journalism.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c49759)  has announced the addition of "Publishing in  Asia-Pacific" to their offering.
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Media & professional: CEO of Philadelphia Media Holdings expresses interest in buying Wall Street Journal publisher.
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Houghton Mifflin agreed to buy the Harcourt education and trade publishing units from the publisher Reed Elsevier for $4 billion in cash and stock.
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Electronic publisher ProQuest Co. (PQE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it would buy privately held Voyager Expanded Learning, a reading curriculum provider, for $360