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HarperCollins Canada to Acquire Select Titles from Wiley Canada

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– HarperCollins Canada today announced that it has acquired a select number of Wiley Canada‘s non-fiction backlist titles. The acquisition is effective immediately. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Among the titles purchased are such Canadian classics as the bestselling Mother of All series by Ann Douglas, Ken Dryden’s The Game, recognized as the best book ever written on hockey and one of Sports Illustrated’s best sports books of all time, Hockey Dad, by Bob McKenzie and several cookbooks by Anne Lindsay including Smart Cooking,Lighthearted Everyday Cooking, and her most recent Lighthearted at Home: The Very Best of Anne Lindsay.

“The acquisition of these titles will further strengthen our list of bestsellers in the health, sports, and how-to categories,” said Iris Tupholme, Vice President, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief. “We are excited to build on the success of these outstanding works and further develop the digital market for them. We are especially happy to welcome these respected authors to our Canadian publishing program.”

“We believe that HarperCollins Canada is well-positioned to provide the strategic focus required for these assets to achieve their full potential and continue to flourish,” said Mark Allin, Wiley’s Senior Vice President, Professional Development. “Wiley is reshaping its portfolio to support growth opportunities in global research, education and professional practice.” This is the fourth sale associated with Wiley’s planned consumer asset divestiture, which was first announced in March 2012. Those assets included consumer print and digital publishing programs in travel (including the well-known Frommer’s brand), culinary, general interest, pets, crafts, Webster’s New World, and CliffsNotes.

About HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollinsCanada imprints include HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Perennial, Collins, HarperTrophyCanada HarperWeekend and Patrick Crean Editions. These imprints publish finest writers from Canada and around the world, including Kenneth Oppel, Emma Donoghue, Helen Humphreys, Charlotte Gray, Giller Prize‐winner Richard B. Wright and Pulitzer Prize‐winners Richard Ford and Marilynne Robinson. HarperCollins also publishes notable Canadian authors such as Amanda Lang, Jim Treliving and Lloyd Robertson, and such internationally acclaimed authors as Tim Flannery and Isabel Allende. HarperCollinsCanada publishes fiction, non-fiction, reference books and books for children. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, meet consumer demand and generate additional business opportunities. You can visit HarperCollins Publishers on the Internet at http://www.harpercollins.com.

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Turner Publishing Acquires Pets, Crafts, and Other Titles from Wiley’s General Interest Consumer Publishing Program

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Turner Publishing today announced that it has acquired assets from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.’s (NYSE: JWa, JWb) pets, crafts, and general interest consumer publishing program. The terms of the acquisition, which closed April 2, 2013, were not disclosed.

Turner acquired the digital and print assets for approximately 1,500 Wiley titles from its consumer pets, crafts, and general interest publishing programs. Notable brands, authors, and titles include Howell Book House and Baseball Prospectus.

“This strategic acquisition broadens Turner’s list, which spans a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction consumer publishing categories and represents an exciting growth opportunity within the crafts, pets, and general interest areas,” said Todd Bottorff, President and Publisher of Turner Publishing. “The combination of Wiley’s titles with our existing programs will significantly strengthen Turner’s market position as a consumer publisher.” Turner is a fully integrated publishing company that has produced over 1,000 titles since 1984 in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction categories including home & gardens, health & wellness, history, politics, & current affairs, and self-improvement, among many others.

“We believe that Turner Publishing is well-positioned to provide the strategic focus required for these assets to achieve their full potential and continue to flourish,” said Mark Allin, Wiley’s Senior Vice President, Professional Development. “While these assets have contributed to Wiley’s success to date, Wiley is reshaping its portfolio to support growth opportunities in global research, education and professional practice, and create products and services that help customers become more effective throughout their education and careers.”

It is the third sale associated with Wiley’s planned consumer asset divestiture, which was first announced in March 2012. Those assets included consumer print and digital publishing programs in travel (including the well-known Frommer’s brand), culinary, general interest, pets, crafts, Webster’s New World, and CliffsNotes. On November 6,2012, Wiley completed the sale of its culinary, CliffsNotes, and Webster’s New World Dictionary consumer publishing programs to the Boston-based global learning company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). On August 30^, 2012, Wiley completed the sale of all of its travel assets, including the Frommer’s brand, to Google.

About Turner Publishing

Founded in 1985, Turner Publishing is an award-winning, independent publisher based in Nashville, Tennessee with multiple New York Times best-selling authors. It has been named by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the fastest growing independent publishers in the nation …read more
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