Smith to leave Quercus after sale to Hodder
Quercus chief executive Mark Smith will leave the publisher following its sale to Hodder & Stoughton, but will ‘remain a consultant to help with the transition’, reports the Bookseller. Quercus...
Hodder to purchase Quercus
Hodder, a division of Hachette UK, has announced plans to purchase UK independent publisher Quercus several months after the company was put up for sale, reports the Bookseller. The deal...
Quercus for sale
UK publisher Quercus is looking for a new owner, putting itself up for sale just days after announcing that it was expecting to record a ‘significant trading loss’ for 2013,...
Fourth ‘Millennium’ book to be published in 2015
UK publisher Quercus has acquired world English language rights to a fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ series (Quercus), to be written by Swedish author David Lagercrantz, reports the Bookseller....
Quercus distribution to move to PanMac in 2011
UK-based independent publisher Quercus has announced that it is moving its Australian and New Zealand distribution from Murdoch Books to Pan Macmillan, commencing 1 January 2011.Quercus' sales will be handled...
New Zealand YA novel shines at Bologna
Bernard Beckett's YA sci-fi epic Genesis is one of the big hits of this year's Bologna Children's Book Fair, selling to Quercus for £100,000 (A$202,500), the largest sum ever paid for...