synopsis: International Greetings PLC, the leading designer and manufacturer of private label greetings products, wrapping paper, Christmas crackers and film and television character based licensed stationery, today announces the acquisition of Alligator Books Limited, a publisher and distributor of children’s books and stationery.

synopsis: Leon Black, chief executive of private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC and a prominent art collector, is buying premiere art book publisher Phaidon Press Ltd. Phaidon, based in London, also publishes books on topics such as architecture and photography, as well as children’s books.

synopsis: Cherry Lake Publishing, a Mankato, Minn.-based educational publisher, has acquired Sleeping Bear Press, known for its illustrated state alphabet series of 50 books for emerging readers.

synopsis: Lee & Low Books, an independent publisher of high quality books for children and young adults with a focus on diversity, announced that it has acquired the assets of San Francisco-based Children's Book Press, the first specialty publisher of multicultural children's books in the United States.

synopsis: Kappa Books Publishers, LLC announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the business, intellectual property and other assets of Modern Publishing, a division of Unisystems, Inc., a New York-based mass market publisher of children's coloring and activity books.

synopsis: Amazon.com, Inc. and Marshall Cavendish, one of the world’s leading educational and consumer book publishers and classroom digital solutions providers, announced that Amazon has signed a deal to acquire over 450 titles of its US Children’s trade books business, Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books.

synopsis: ePals Corporation announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Carus Publishing Company. Carus, which includes the Cricket Magazine Group, Cobblestone Publishing and Open Court Publishing, publishes 14 magazine titles, hundreds of books and a growing collection of recognized Web and mobile applications.

synopsis: Dalmatian Press has emerged has the winner in the sweepstakes to acquire Intervisual Books. Dalmatian paid about $9.6 milion to acquire the children’s book publisher, which filed for bankruptcy protection in May. Dalmatian’s bid topped an early offer of just over $7 million made by Educational Development Corp.

synopsis: Randall White, CEO and President of Educational Development Corporation nnounces that effective July 26, 2006, the Plan of Reorganization and Dip Financing Agreement with Intervisual Books, Inc. located in Inglewood, California, that the Company entered into on July 13, 2006, has been cancelled.

synopsis: Thomas N. Thornton, Chief Executive Officer of Andrews McMeel Publishing (AMP), announces AMP's acquisition of Accord Publishing. Accord, based in Denver, Colorado, will become the Accord Division of AMP and will continue to operate its editorial, creative and publishing offices in Colorado.

synopsis: Advanced Marketing Services purchased the distribution assets of Ragged Bears Ltd., a U.K.-based book distributor whose clients include Chronicle Children’s, Moonlight Publishing, North-South Books, Ragged Bears Publishing and Lothian Books.

synopsis: Mind Candy announced they acquired games studio Origami Blue to launch thier new innovation centre ‘Candy Labs’ down in Brighton. Candy Labs will be a research and development studio that experiments with new ideas of entertainment for children. The ideas will be a mix of digital and non-digital entertaiment.

synopsis: OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Fleurus Presse and Junior Hebdo, the youth publications divisions of leading French media company Groupe Le Monde.

synopsis: The energy drink marketer, Red Bull has acquired Ecowin Verlag. Ecowin Verlag is a book publisher based in Salzburg, Austria. Ecowin's Founder Hannes Steiner will remain CEO of the publishing house.

synopsis: Douglas & McIntyre has found a buyer. The purchaser is prominent, long-time B.C. publishers Harbour Publishing. Douglas & McIntyre is a book publishing house.

synopsis: Britain's Pearson and Germany's Bertelsmann are to merge their publishers Penguin and Random House. Under the plans, Bertelsmann will own 53 percent of the venture and nominate five directors to the board, while Pearson would own the rest and nominate four.

synopsis: Penguin books owner Pearson has bought Author Solutions Inc (ASI) from Bertram Capital. Formed in 2007, ASI has enabled 150,000 authors to publish, market and distribute more than 190,000 books in print and electronic formats.

synopsis: Author Solutions, Inc. today announced it closed the previously announced acquisition of iUniverse, a leading self-publishing company. iUniverse will join AuthorHouse as one of the brands of Author Solutions, the world’s leading self-publishing company. Author Solutions is a Bertram Capital-owned holding company.

synopsis: British private equity group Apax is pulling out of Dutch publishing group PCM. Apax bought 47.5% of PCM, which publishes the Volkskrant, NRC and Trouw newspapers, in July 2004.

synopsis: Bertram Capital, a private equity firm based in Palo Alto, California, has purchased Author Solutions, Inc., the holding company for AuthorHouse, from Gazelle Tech Ventures, an Indiana-based venture capital firm, in a transaction announced today by Bryan Smith, president and CEO of AuthorHouse.

synopsis: Allin Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified technology consulting company, has acquired the SharePoint Hosting domain properties and related SharePoint assets of SmithBridge Technology Group, Inc.

synopsis: International Greetings PLC, the leading designer and manufacturer of private label greetings products, wrapping paper, Christmas crackers and film and television character based licensed stationery, today announces the acquisition of Alligator Books Limited, a publisher and distributor of children’s books and stationery.

synopsis: Allin Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified technology consulting company, has acquired the SharePoint Hosting domain properties and related SharePoint assets of SmithBridge Technology Group, Inc.

synopsis: International Greetings PLC has acquired the business and assets of Pinwheel Ltd. Pinwheel was acquired from the administrators by the Group’s subsidiary, Alligator Books Limited, for an initial consideration of £417,000 and a maximum total consideration of up to £460,000.

synopsis: International Greetings PLC, the leading designer and manufacturer of private label greetings products, wrapping paper, Christmas crackers and film and television character based licensed stationery, today announces the acquisition of Alligator Books Limited, a publisher and distributor of children’s books and stationery.

synopsis: Dr. Tito Tettamanti and Basel-based media lawyer Martin Wagner are acquiring all of the shares in "National Zeitung und Basler Nachrichten AG" that belonged to the Hagemann family and PubliGroupe. "National Zeitung und Basler Nachrichten AG" operates on the market as "Basler Zeitung Medien" (BZM).

synopsis: CSS Industries, Inc. announced that it has completed the previously reported acquisition of substantially all of the business and assets of C.R. Gibson, Inc., a leading designer, marketer and distributor of memory books, stationery, journals and notecards, paper tableware, infant and wedding photo albums and scrapbooks and other gift items.

synopsis: Hersam Acorn Community Publishing, LLC acquired the assets of Journal Community Publishing Group, Inc.’s Connecticut and Vermont clusters -- consisting of 11 community papers, two printing facilities (in Trumbull, CT and Bennington, VT) and five shopper products.