We were delighted to hear that MDL had been selected for the short list of The Bookseller Industry Awards 2010 for Innovation in the Publishing Supply Chain.  These industry awards combine the British Book Industry Awards, aka The Nibbies, and The Bookseller’s own Retail Awards.  We are very proud of our supply chain innovation: the MIDAS Gold Sales Data warehouse. Read more.  MIDAS is very popular with our publishers.  As Clive Reynard of CRW Publishing wrote to us: MIDAS is such a fantastic management information tool that I wonder how I ever coped without it. CRW must have saved many thousands of pounds since March 2008 by managing our reprints far better and planning new titles based on the performance of similar titles in the recent past.

Congratulations are due to Earthscan who won the 2010 Independent Publisher of the Year Award.  They also won the Lightning Source Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year and International Achievement of the Year: a rare hat trick.

On 30 July 2009 we were joined by Royal Pharmaceutical Society Publishing (RPS Publishing) who specialise in a wide range of medical books, journals and digital product.  Subscription orders for all journals are being handled by Macmillan Publishing Solutions (MPS).

Bloomsbury Publishing recently announced that it has acquired Hodder Education's Higher Education textbook lists in Media and Communications, History and English Literature, to be managed under the new Bloomsbury Academic imprint.  Read more.

We are very pleased to welcome Elliott & Thompson, who joined us on 1 June.  They are an independent publisher, founded in 2001, publishing high quality fiction and non fiction across a range of genres.

We were joined in April by two new publishers.  On 1 April we started to distribute the Arden Shakespeare list, well known in scholarly circles for its editions of the bard's plays with extensive commentary.  On 6 April Berg Publishers went live: an academic publisher with a strong focus on visual culture.  Both publishers were recently acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing.

PanMac have announced that they are moving into the mobile reading platform with GoSpoken, who will sell the publisher’s entire e-book catalogue on its site.  Read more.

Once again we are pleased to announce that we have successfully retained our e4books Commended Status; notwithstanding the increasingly high standards required.

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