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Simon & Schuster takes on Duncan Baird

28.07.08 Graeme Neill

Simon & Schuster has signed a sales and distribution deal with non-fiction illustrated publisher Duncan Baird Publishing. Simon & Schuster will handle sales and distribution for the publisher's two imprints, Duncan Baird Publishing and Watkins, from 1st January 2009.

DBP's titles are currently sold into the UK and Ireland by a head office team supported by freelance workers. The publisher has a list of mind, body & spirit, health & well-being, cookery, natural history, popular psychology and cultural reference titles.

Simon & Schuster has sold DBP's list into Australia and New Zealand for the past eight years. Ian Chapman, c.e.o. and managing director of S&S, said that DBP was a publisher that he had admired from afar. "DBP's editorial expertise in a category where we have recently seen enormous growth ourselves provides us with a rare opportunity to complement our own publishing and distribution programme with a high-quality illustrated list which has the potential to become a market leading brand," he said.

Duncan Baird, managing director of DBP, said that the relationship with S&S in Australia had led to a "tremendous growth" in sales. "We share a number of growing publishing areas in both illustrated and non-illustrated books, and I am sure that working closely together will provide a real opportunity to publish our books as effectively as we possibly can," he said.

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