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Melbourne Uni Bookshop acquires SPP Medical Bookshop

Melbourne University Bookshop (MUB) has announced that it has acquired Standish Prideaux & Pye (SPP) Medical Bookshop. The acquisition will take effect from 5 January next year. &...

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Bonnier acquires Templar

Bonnier, the Swedish-based parent company of publishers including The Five Mile Press and Weldon Owen, has acquired the UK-based Templar Publishing. Templar is best-known as the creator of the success...

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Mackenzie, Boyes to leave ARW

Joan Mackenzie, group book specialist, and Justin Boyes, group marketing manager, are stepping down from their roles at A&R Whitcoulls. WBN understands that this is due to the bookselling chain's ...

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Campion Education acquires Landmark School Supplies

The textbook and school stationery supplier Campion Education has acquired Landmark School Supplies. Campion Education has grown in recent years to include Bellbird Books and technical and busine...

Has Reed already found a buyer for RBI?

Only days after announcing that it was putting its magazine are, Reed Business Information (RBI) on the market, it seems that Reed Elsevier might have found a buyer -- Apax Partners, which alread...

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Parragon buys Funtastic

International publisher Parragon has acquired the publishing division of Funtastic. Fourteen Funtastic publishing staffers have been made redundant, with the remaining 12 due to move to Par...

New owner for Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records has been sold by HIT Entertainment to Canadian-based The Jim Pattison Group, which owns the 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' franchise.

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ACCC will not oppose A&R Borders bid

As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, after a number of delays, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it will not oppose the proposed acquisition of B...

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ACCC won't oppose acquisition of Borders by A&R

As reported in a WBn Special Bulletin last week, after a number of delays, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it will not oppose the proposed acquisition of B...

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