Princeton University Press has acquired backlist rights to a line of books it has been co-publishing for years called the WildGuides. The line, which has been released by a U.K.-based non-profit of the same name, features books about wildlife conservation. Throug the deal PUP gets the WildGuides backlist, and also have the option to publish all new WildGuides titles, in the U.S. and the U.K., through its newly established Princeton WildGuides imprint.
PUP has co-published such WildGuides titles as Nigel Cleere's Nightjars of the World and James Lowen's Antarctic Wildlife. Speaking to the acquisition, PUP's group publisher for science and reference, Robert Kirk, said: "This partnership will allow us to both expand our footprint in the UK and continental Europe and to embark on ambitious co-development of projects on a global basis." The WildGuides imprint at PUP will fit into a program dedicated to natural history titles, and already published through series like Princeton Pocket Guides and Princeton Field Guides.
