Macro-Publishing News Mini-Bonanza

* The distributor Baker and Taylor has been sold to the giant investment house Castle Harlan for much more than its purchase price of a few years back. Baker and Taylor has been an important distributor into libraries and a vital one for a few smaller comics publishing efforts, according to my memory. I can't see any of this changing with new ownership.

* Good news from an odd source: a Bowker report says that US book production went down 18K last, quite the rare decline. The good news: the comics categories are up despite the decline, which shows some strength, and smaller publishers are the big group that's down, which makes me think a growing category might be attractive to some of them.
 
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