Get Ready For More Mergers And Acquisitions In Book Publishing

The publishing house that Stieg Larsson built with his Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series is now up for sale. Enthusiast publisher (and my employer) F+W Media made an acquisition last week that added 40% to its revenues. Amazon acquired social media platform Goodreads last year for a rumored nine figures. And the summer of 2013 saw the closure of the largest merger in book publishing history: The combination of the two largest publishers in the world.