On 30 July 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.

We are delighted to report that on 1 August we were joined by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, who specialise in academic and professional books about social and behavioural sciences.

We were delighted to hear that Bloomsbury won a Special Achievement Award for Exporting at the London Bookfair.  The special Nibbie was awarded by Activair as a result of the outstanding work they had done in exporting Harry Potter around the world.   They gave a special thank you to "MDL’s wonderful export team, in particular Kate Renwick".

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