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Lakeside Book Company announced Friday afternoon that it has acquired Baker & Taylor Publisher Services. The company notes, “Lakeside Book expands its service offering to include distribution and order-to-cash capabilities, providing publishers with streamlined and integrated solutions to sell, print, store, and distribute their books with Lakeside Book Company.” BTPS distributes for over 250 small presses, and previously reported that it had not experienced the same termination layoffs as the Baker & Taylor wholesaling business. Built on the former Bookmasters, which Baker & Taylor had acquired, the acquisition includes the print-on-demand manufacturing facility in Ashland, OH. The operation will “be …
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Food tech veteran, longevity expert, and NYU nutrition PhD Michelle Davenport's EAT WATER, AGE SLOWLY, a hybrid health/cookbook spotlighting the latest research on advanced glycation end products, drivers of human aging and disease, and how to avoid them by cooking with water, a technique that is at the root of nearly all ancestral cuisines, to Lucia Watson at Avery, in a major deal, at auction, by Dado Derviskadic at Folio Literary Management (NA). Rights also to Michelle Pilley at … read more
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