RBmedia Acquires Award-Winning U.K. Indie Boldwood Books - Publishing Perspectives

This smoke is giving me a headache.

Panzer's next stop in the Catosphere was at the Publishing Perspectives site. There our inquisitive kitty boy found a post about U.K. publisher Boldwood.

 

According to the post RBmedia has acquired Boldwood. RBedia is an audiobook publisher and Boldwood is an ebook, print book and audiobook publisher.

 

Panzer says, "Sounds like they'll fit right together."

 

Note: This is a medium length post. Bring a glass of iced tea and a muffin for today's snack.

 

To read the post tootle over to RBMedia 

RBMedia Agrees to Acquire Dreamscape Media - Publishers Weekly

Ugh! It's still too hot outside for this little kitty.

By Fiona L. Woods with reporting by Panzer the cat

 

Today's trip into the Catosphere took Panzer to the Publishers Weekly site. There our inquisitive kitty boy found a post about Dreamscape Media.

According to Jim Milliot's post, Dreamscape Media is being acquired by RBMedia. As part of the acquisition RBMedia will gain Dreamscape's 7,000 audiobook inventory.

Panzer says, "This little kitty thinks the audiobook funnel just got smaller."

Note:This is a short-medium length post. Bring a glass of lemonade for today's reading selection.

To read the post tootle over to rbmedia

OverDrive's New Owners: What It Means - American Libraries Magazine

Panzer was cleaning the floor of the Panzermobile, when he found a post crumpled up under the carpet under the passenger seat. Smoothing out the post, our fastidious kitty found it was from the American Libraries Magazine site. Reading the post, he discovered it was about the sale of OverDrive. Pa whennzer told you about OverDrive's acquisition when it was first announced.

What do you think will happen?

According to Marshall Breeding, on Christmas Eve OverDrive announced the company was being acquired by investment firm KKR.  OverDrive provides ebooks to libraries. The acquisition will occur in the first quarter of 2020. Japanese firm Rakuten has owned OverDrive since 2015. The post contains different possible scenarios the acquisition would make possible in the ebooks and digital content to libraries market. An example would be the merger of KKR's RBmedia with OverDrive. RBmedia supplies audiobooks to libraries which would augment OverDrive's ebooks to library supply chain.

Panzer says, "It will be interesting to see what happens."

Note: This is a humongous post. Bring a quart of tea and six muffins for today's reading selection. If you plan read Panzer's previous post, bring another cup of tea and a muffin.

To read the post tootle over to Overdrive
To read Panzer's previous post about the OverDrive sale, tootle over to OverDrive sale