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Publishers in the News - December 3-9, 2007

Published by Erica Nielsen on December 10, 2007 in In the News. 0 Comments

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Houghton Mifflin Co. is selling its college textbook unit to Cengage Learning for $750 million so it can focus on its publishing business geared toward kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as trade and reference publications. — International Herald Tribune

CourseSmart LLC, a new company backed by the nation’s biggest textbook publishers, is betting that many tech-savvy students looking to save some money will select e-textbooks over traditional ones. The Belmont, Calif., company is still in beta, refining its digital-book format and its business model. It offers about 2,000 e-textbooks now and hopes to have far more by next fall. — The Boston Globe

HM Riverdeep, the Ireland-based parent company of US educational publisher Houghton Mifflin, received U.S. Justice Department approval last week to acquire Reed Elsevier’s Harcourt US education. The $4 billion deal is expected to culminate by either mid-December or early next year. — Authorlink

Marvel Entertainment and Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced plans to publish two new manga series based on Marvel Entertainment’s highly popular X-Men series. — Anime News Network

AuthorHouse, the world’s leading self-publishing company, announced it will help three deserving organizations: The Denver School Museum; SKIP, Inc.; and the Rainbow Repertory Theatre realize their dreams of publishing a book. Each group will receive a standard paperback publishing package grant through AuthorHouse’s Authors Across America initiative. — PR-USA

Guess who turns 50 this year? TheGrinch! To celebrate, Random House has released a retrospective of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” that includes the original text plus 32 pages of commentary compiled by Charles D. Cohen, a Dr. Seuss expert. — GoErie.com

CTB/McGraw-Hill, a national leader in PreK-12 and adult education assessment solutions, was selected by Indiana to provide a comprehensive formative and benchmark assessment system that will enhance classroom instruction and track student progress toward state standards in Grades 3-8. — Reuters

McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading global provider of information resources for the scientific and medical communities, announced the relaunch of Scriver’s Online Metabolic & Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease (OMMBID). This encyclopedic resource for medicine and biology provides physicians, geneticists, researchers, students, and educators, online access to the acknowledged leading reference for human genetics and inherited diseases on a new platform with enhanced features, a redesigned interface, and monthly content updates. — CNN

Publishers in the News - November 12, 2007

Published by Erica Nielsen on November 12, 2007 in In the News. 0 Comments

Updates on: Princeton Review, Reader’s Digest

Princeton Review Inc., which provides test-preparation and college admissions services, on Wednesday named Stephen Richards chief operating officer and chief financial officer. Richards was previously executive vice president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Houghton Mifflin. — CNN

Reader’s Digest has named Peggy Northrop U.S. Editor-in-Chief, it was announced today by Mary Berner, President and CEO of The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. Northrop joins  Reader’s Digest from Meredith’s More magazine, where she has been Editor-in- Chief since  April 2004. Northrop will also serve on the company’s Executive Committee. — PR Newswire

Publishers in the News - November 2, 2007

Published by Erica Nielsen on November 2, 2007 in In the News. 0 Comments

Updates on: Houghton Mifflin, Mobifusion

Illinois — Inland Real Estate Acquisitions Inc. of Oak Brook has negotiated a sale-leaseback transaction for the Houghton Mifflin Industrial Facility in Geneva. The sole tenant, Houghton Mifflin, will continue to occupy the building. — Beacon News

Boston-based educational publisher Houghton Mifflin is teaming with Mobifusion in California, a publisher of mobile content, to release a line of mobile products that will focus on reference information and children’s titles. — MSN

Publishers in the News – October 30, 2007

Published by Erica Nielsen on October 30, 2007 in In the News. 0 Comments

Updates on: Pearson Plc, Houghton Mifflin Co., Agilix Labs, Inc.

Pearson Plc, which provides testing for nurses and business-school students, won a contract from the U.S. Department of Education to measure the progress of students and the quality of public education. From 2008 to 2012, Pearson will handle the U.S.’s National Assessment of Educational Progress. — Bloomberg

Brothers and Citi will begin syndicating this week a $7.15 billion bank loan backing Boston-based educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Co.’s acquisition of the Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann divisions of Reed Elsevier. — Reuters

Agilix Labs, Inc., a leader in distributed e-learning solutions, today announced it has joined the IMS Common Cartridge Alliance, an organization that supports the development, distribution and maintenance of open source tools to facilitate the Common Cartridge standard. By joining this alliance, Agilix renews its commitment to support all learning content created by publishers in the Common Cartridge format, and incorporating these standards into future product releases. — BusinessWire