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Publishers in the News - Dec. 17-23, 2007

Published by Erica Nielsen on December 23, 2007 in In the News. 0 Comments

• Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, breaks new ground with the launch of The 39 Clues, a multi-platform adventure series for ages 8-12. — CNN Money 

• Scholastic reported results for the fiscal second quarter ended November 30, 2007. Revenue in the second quarter was $746.2 million compared to $735.5 million in the prior year period, and net profit was $75.6 million versus $75.1 million. — Box Business 

• They are the first draft of history but, as many researchers would admit, are often overlooked. Historic newspapers, though, could enter the mindsets and research habits of academics with a bang, thanks to a new service from the British Library and technical partner Cengage Learning. — Information World Review 

• McGraw-Hill, which produces PreK-12 and adult-education assessment solutions, was selected by Indiana to provide a comprehensive formative and benchmark assessment system to enhance classroom instruction and track student progress toward state standards in grades 3-8. — Salinas Californian

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 – October 25, 2007

Published by Erica Nielsen on October 25, 2007 in In the News. 0 Comments

Updates on: Pearson, Lagardere, McGraw-Hill Companies, Tribune Co., Thomson Corp.

Pearson VUE, the electronic certification and licensure testing business of Pearson, announced that it has signed an exclusive multi-year contract with Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC) to provide test development and test delivery services for ONCC’s certification programs. — Yahoo

Arnaud Lagardere, chief executive of Lagardere SCA, denied there was insider trading in the publishing company’s sale of shares in European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. two months before EADS announced production delays at Airbus’s A380, the world’s biggest passenger plane. — Bloomberg

The Board of Directors of The McGraw-Hill Companies approved a regular quarterly cash dividend on the Corporation’s common stock. The dividend of $0.205 is payable on December 12, 2007 to shareholders of record on November 28, 2007. — Yahoo

Tribune Co.reported third-quarter profit that fell less than analysts estimated, easing investor concern that Sam Zell will have trouble financing an $8.2 billion buyout of the second-biggest U.S. newspaper publisher. — Bloomberg

Thomson Corp., the financial-information provider buying Reuters Group Plc, said third-quarter profit jumped on proceeds from the sale of education divisions and higher revenue from its remaining units. — Bloomberg