F+W announced May 5th that Tinicum L.P. and certain affiliated funds managed by Tinicum Incorporated (“Tinicum”) have completed a majority investment in F+W, A Content + eCommerce Company (www.fwmedia.com).  F+W also owns Digital Book World (DBW).  Tinicum is a...

  HarperCollins will buy romance publisher Harlequin for C$455 million, according to Publishers Weekly, pending approval from both the U.S. and Canadian governments and Canada's Heritage Department. The deal is schedule to close in the third quarter of 2014.    HC CEO...

The 2014 San Francisco Book Festival late registration deadline arrives May 3 for its annual competition honoring the best books of the spring. The awards will be held on Saturday, May 17 at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel here. The 2014 San Francisco Book Festival will...

The 2014 Paris Book Festival late registration deadline arrives May 3 for its annual awards honoring the best of international publishing. All materials must be in our hands at close of business on that date. The 2014 Paris Book Festival will consider non-fiction,...

The 2014 Beach Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the summer's hottest reads. The Beach Book Festival will consider self-published or independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books,...

In its new Annual Report, the international media company Bertelsmann for the first time uses illustrative infographics to illustrate the strategic progress of the past year. For example, readers learn that Penguin Random House, Bertelsmann’s trade book publishing...

Author goes from unpublished and unrepresented to a dream agent and two-book deal as a result of the first 50 pages submitted to Killer Nashville’s Claymore Award – Deadline for the next Claymore Award competition is April 30, 2014. Terry Shames came to Killer...

The 2014 New York Book Festival will hold its its annual competition honoring books worthy of further attention from the world publishing capital on June 20-21 in Manhattan. The 2014 New York Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent...

Laurie Parkin, v-p and publisher of Kensington Publishing, will retire May 30 after serving in those positions since 1999. During her time at Kensington she has worked with such authors as Fern Michaels, Lisa Jackson, Robert K. Tanenbaum, William W. Johnstone and...