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Salem Media Group Announces the Sale of Regnery Publishing

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Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Entertainment, Communications, Consumer, TV and Radio, Religion, Publishing, Regnery Publishing, Pequot War, Travel, Book, Science, Philosophy, Salem Media Group, Children's Health Defense, Simon & Schuster, Fantasy, Skyhorse Publishing, Health, Backlist, The World Almanac, Media Group, Nature, Sport, Growth, Radio, Arcade Publishing, Politics, History, Humour

Salem Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SALM) announced today that it has reached an agreement with Skyhorse Publishing to sell Regnery Publishing.

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  • Salem Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SALM) announced today that it has reached an agreement with Skyhorse Publishing to sell Regnery Publishing.
  • David Evans, Chief Operating Officer of Salem Media, said, “We are thrilled to pass the torch of the oldest and most respected conservative publishing company in America to Free Speech advocate Tony Lyons and his incredibly successful Skyhorse Publishing.
  • Regnery will be an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing and will maintain its own identity.”
    The more than 1,500 Regnery titles will be absorbed into the Skyhorse Publishing catalogue.
  • Salem Media Group is America’s leading multimedia company specializing in Christian and conservative content, with media properties comprising radio, digital media and book and newsletter publishing.

New App YONDER Reimagines Serialized Fiction with a Curated Catalog from Bestselling Authors and the Most Exciting Voices in Storytelling

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Thursday, October 13, 2022
Teens, Women, Publishing, Entertainment, LGBTQ+, Men, Communications, Mobile Entertainment, Books, Consumer, Desire, Online, Backlist, WEBTOON, Life, Publishing, Hunted, Android, LitRPG, Blackstone Audio, Catalog, Wattpad, Love, The Wall Street Journal, Multimedia, Domestic worker, The New York Times, Technology, House, Reading, USA Today, Bound, Rage, IOS, Amazon, TikTok, Darkness, Book, Video game

Launching today, YONDER is a new serialized fiction app bringing a premium, curated experience to the hottest category in publishing, serialized storytelling.

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  • Launching today, YONDER is a new serialized fiction app bringing a premium, curated experience to the hottest category in publishing, serialized storytelling.
  • (Photo: Business Wire)
    From scary to steamy, mysterious to scintillating, YONDER hosts a diverse array of exciting fiction, with new chapters added daily.
  • With some of the most exciting voices in fiction, and a product that encourages and rewards reading, YONDER is the future of fiction, bringing bookshelf quality stories to a serialized mobile app.
  • YONDER is a new serialized fiction app from the WEBTOON family of brands, combining mobile reading, an engaging serialized experience, and thousands of curated stories in every genre.

US Book Publisher Revenues to Recede From Pandemic-Induced Highs

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Monday, May 9, 2022
Backlist, Industry, Textbook, School, Growth, Composition of the human body, Income, Population growth, Video game, Amazon, Book

CLEVELAND, May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- US book publisher revenues in nominal terms are forecast to see minimal annual declines through 2026, according to Books: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Publishers are expected to benefit from disposable income and population growth, which will prevent faster declines. The industry will also see strong growth in digitally downloaded audiobooks. However, the industry saw an unprecedented sales spike in 2021 due to increased textbook purchases by schools, consumers spending more time reading, and stimulus checks propping up disposable income levels. These factors supporting elevated revenue levels are expected to dissipate in 2022, which will cause revenues to return to historical trend. In addition, the number of school-age children is expected to decline, which will reduce sales of children's books. Sales are expected to fall over the forecast period as consumer reading time falls from a pandemic-inflated high. Competition from sellers of used books, including brick-and-mortar used book stores and internet retailers such as Amazon, will also continue to constrain revenues.

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  • These factors supporting elevated revenue levels are expected to dissipate in 2022, which will cause revenues to return to historical trend.
  • Competition from sellers of used books, including brick-and-mortar used book stores and internet retailers such as Amazon, will also continue to constrain revenues.
  • This report forecasts to 2022 and 2026 US books revenues in nominal US dollars.
  • Total revenues are segmented by media type in terms of:
    Total revenues are also segmented by market as follows:

Bestselling Dark Fantasy Author Scarlett St. Clair Joins Bloom Books

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Friday, July 23, 2021
Backlist, Book publishing, Bloom, Clair, Scarlett, Books, Publishing

CHICAGO, July 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloom Books, an imprint of the entrepreneurial, independent book publisher Sourcebooks, is thrilled to announce that bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair will be joining the imprint with all her frontlist and backlist.

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  • CHICAGO, July 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloom Books, an imprint of the entrepreneurial, independent book publisher Sourcebooks, is thrilled to announce that bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair will be joining the imprint with all her frontlist and backlist.
  • "I cannot tell you how ecstatic I am to join Bloom," says St. Clair.
  • On November 30, Bloom will release KING OF BATTLE AND BLOOD, a novel that will ignite the dark fantasy fandom.
  • Media Contact: Pamela Jaffee | Senior Director of Publicity and Brand Marketing, Bloom Books | [email protected]
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International and K-12 Markets Lead Growth Segments for OverDrive

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Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Book formats, Publishing, Digital media, Rakuten, Media technology, OverDrive, Inc., Electronic publishing, Audiobook, Midlist, Backlist, E-book, Market

Rakuten OverDrive , the leading global digital distributor of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries and schools, reports strong double-digit sales growth with the largest gains in international and K-12 markets as well as a renewed focus on midlist and backlist titles.

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  • Rakuten OverDrive , the leading global digital distributor of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries and schools, reports strong double-digit sales growth with the largest gains in international and K-12 markets as well as a renewed focus on midlist and backlist titles.
  • International markets experiencing extraordinary growth include Germany, Sweden, China, Singapore and Malaysia, in addition to strong digital book institutional sales in all English language markets.
  • In North America, the fastest growing institutional channel, K-12 schools, has already achieved 39% YoY growth in 2018.
  • Rakuten OverDrive will also be meeting with international partners at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Booth 6.0 C124).