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Epic Acquired by Global Ed-Tech Giant BYJU’S
Epic, whose digital reading platform features more than 40,000 books, audiobooks, and videos for children, has been acquired by the India giant BYJU's for $500 million.
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Private Equity Firm to Buy McGraw-Hill for $4.5 Billion
Eight years after it bought McGraw-Hill Education for $2.4 billion, Apollo Global Management has reached an agreement to sell the company to another private equity firm, Platinum Equity, for $4.5 billion.
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Readerlink Acquires Activity Publisher Dreamtivity
Readerlink has acquired the brand and assets of Dreamtivity from Retail Centric Marketing. A publisher of coloring and activity books plus arts and crafts products, Dreamtivity will become an imprint of Readerlink's Printers Row publishing division.
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Clarivate to Buy ProQuest for $5.3 Billion
In a huge deal in the library and information publishing world, London-based Clarivate has agreed to acquire ProQuest, an acquisition expected to be completed later this year.
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Barnes & Noble's Owner Buys Paper Source
Elliott Management, which acquired Barnes & Noble in September 2019, has reached an agreement to buy the stationery retailer Paper Source. B&N CEO James Daunt will add oversight of Paper Source to his responsibilities.
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RBmedia Buys M-H Professional Audiobook Business
RBmedia has acquired the audiobook publishing business of McGraw-Hill Professional in a deal that adds about 400 business books to the audio publisher's list, chief content officer Troy Juliar said.
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Kakao Entertainment Acquires Radish Reading App
Radish, a mobile reading app offering serialized bingeable genre fiction, has been acquired by Kakao Entertainment in a transaction valued at $440 million.
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HarperCollins Completes Purchase of HMH Trade
The second largest trade publisher in the U.S. has completed its acquisition of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media, for $349 million.
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Investment Firm in Deal with RosettaBooks
MEP Capital has made an investment in RosettaBooks in a deal that gives MEP ownership of Rosetta's e-book catalog while leaving the operation of Rosetta unchanged.
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Francisco Partners to Acquire VitalSource from Ingram
Ingram Content Group has reached a deal to sell its digital learning platform VitalSource to Francisco Partners.
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