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Igloo to focus on expansion after year of growth

Publication Date: Mon, 20/08/2012 - 07:57

Igloo Books is looking to extend its list and digital strategy after its year-end results show the indie publisher has effectively "doubled in size" over the last two years.

The company achieved sales of £19.8million for the year to end of March 2012, up by £3 million from 2011. Profit for the company...

digital | Igloo Books | independent publishing | licensing | Lisa Campbell | Results | sales
Scholastic partners with RSPCA for publishing programme

Publication Date: Mon, 06/08/2012 - 08:20

Scholastic has partnered with animal welfare charity the RSPCA for a two-year publishing deal, with the children's publisher to produce a range of RSPCA fiction, non-fiction, annuals and stickerbooks.

The publisher will donate a minimum of 15p to the RSPCA for every book sold. The fiction, non-fiction and annuals will be for...

Charity | Charlotte Williams | children's | Home | licensing | RSPCA | Scholastic
Penguin launches global licensing division

Publication Date: Wed, 13/06/2012 - 07:00

Penguin Group launched its global licensing and consumer products division at the 2012 International Licensing Expo in Las Vegas yesterday [11th June].

The publisher hosted a Penguin Licensing and Consumer Products booth at the Expo, featuring its brands from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, including Spot, Land of Me,...

Charlotte Williams | International | licensing | Penguin
SCL to propose library e-book licensing

Publication Date: Tue, 10/04/2012 - 08:10

The Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) is to have meetings with individual publishers over e-lending, with licensing business models among proposals for discussion. Leasing e-books for a set time period, or a limited number of loans—the proposal favoured by HarperCollins a year ago, and at the time widely criticised—are among the...

Benedicte Page | e-book lending | Home | Library | licensing | Mark Taylor | Nicola Solomon | SCL | Society of Authors | Society of Chief Librarians
BA uneasy over library e-book proposals

Publication Date: Thu, 25/03/2010 - 14:04

The Booksellers Association is meeting its council members after expressing concerns over the government’s long-awaited library review proposed a ban on the sector charging for e-books.

The Library Modernisation Review, published this week by culture minister Margaret Hodge, said the government would make an “affirmative...

Booksellers Association | digital | e-books | Home | libraries | licensing | Rights | Victoria Gallagher
Boomerang rescues Ent Rights

Publication Date: Wed, 01/04/2009 - 11:49

Children's licensing group Entertainment Rights has called in the administrators Deloitte, but it has immediately sold its UK and US subsidiaries to Boomerang Media, a US copyrights business. The money paid will not result in any return to shareholders, but 90 staff will transfer to the new company.

Entertainment Rights said it had...

children's | Entertainment Rights | Home | licensing | Philip Jones
Mr Gum on television

Publication Date: Tue, 22/01/2008 - 15:51

An animated television series of Andy Stanton's Mr Gum books is in production with Nickelodeon, with a pilot episode due by the end of the year.

The series is being co-written by Stanton with Andy Bobrow, writer on "Malcolm in the Middle”. The deal was struck by Eve White at Eve White Literary Agency, and follows a world...

Alison Bone | children's | licensing | Mr Gum
Entertainment Rights 'in talks'

Publication Date: Tue, 22/01/2008 - 12:21

Entertainment Rights, the company behind children's characters Postman Pat and Basil Brush, has confirmed it is in preliminary takeover talks. In a statement to the City, the company said it had entered discussions about its future ownership, following weekend press reports.

The statement read: "The board of ER notes the recent...

character | children's | Entertainment Rights | licensing | Philip Jones
Designer (Children's Books)

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A leading children’s publisher based in West London is looking to recruit a creative and commercially driven Designer to work across a large variety of formats: activity, gift, storybook novelty and picture books, with particular focus on the younger age group. The Designer will have lots of imaginative ideas and be able to create...

Books | Childrens | design | fiction | licensing | London
Licensing Manager, Government Accounts NW Europe (STM) - London

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Location : London or Home Based

Salary : Excellent - On Application

Our client, a leading STM Publisher, is looking to appoint a Licensing Manager, Government Accounts covering North West Europe.

The Licensing Manager is responsible for all direct...

academic | Account Manager | Europe | goverment | licensing | publishing | sales | stm