Publisher of Junior Library Guild and The Horn Book expands holdings
-- Library Journal, 03/01/2010
From a press release issued today:
Ohio-based Media Source Inc. announces today that it has acquired Library Journal and School Library Journal from Reed Business Information-US. The acquisition includes all print and web products, services, supplements, and newsletters, including Library Hotline.
With this purchase, Media Source, best known for its ownership of Junior Library Guild and The Horn Book, Inc., adds substantially to its product offerings in the library market. "Library Journal and School Library Journal are valuable magazines that deserve a corporate home focused on libraries,” said Randall Asmo, CEO of Media Source. “We respect the history and contribution of LJ and SLJ. Our goal is to build upon those strengths to provide a vital and comprehensive service to the librarian community.”
The Editorial and Advertising Sales groups of the acquired publications will continue operations in New York City. Asmo continued, “Editorial Director Brian Kenney, LJ Editor-in-Chief Francine Fialkoff, and Publisher Ron Shank are important to the success of SLJ and LJ, and they will remain in their current roles. We believe that the combined businesses of SLJ, LJ, Junior Library Guild, and The Horn Book will create a myriad of new opportunities in the marketplace. At the same time, our plan is to have each business unit continue to operate with complete editorial independence."
About Media Source Inc.: Media Source, with headquarters just outside Columbus, Ohio, is the parent company of Junior Library Guild (JLG) and The Horn Book, Inc. JLG is a review and collection development service that provides new release children’s and young adult books to more than 17,000 school and public libraries. The Horn Book, Inc. reviews children’s and young adult books in two print publications, The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide.
A message from Kenney
Editorial Director Kenney wrote to SLJ readers, in part:
Why is this [sale] good news? Most importantly, we are joining a company that’s strongly committed to libraries and the librarian community, and which recognizes the contributions that SLJ and LJ make to our profession and industry.
...Last (but hardly least!) our editorial staff will remain intact, including Ron Shank as publisher.... We will remain in New York City.
For more of Kenney's editorial, go here. LJ editor-in-chief Francine Fialkoff, says "the sale brings relief, a little sadness at the break with our sibling Publishers Weekly, potential synergies in our new library company, and freedom from the Reed Elsevier brush." For more, check out her commentary.
Reader Comments (28)
Harry L. Carrigan is perhaps the worst writer I have ever seen. He writes
book reviews (poorly) for Library Journal that include incomplete
sentences, improperly capatilized words, improper use of punctuation,
along with vague and generally hard-to-understand character summaries.
I should probably say that although the punctuation abberations can be
seen throughout his reviews, it did make me laugh. I felt as though I was
reading Flowers for Algernon for a moment.
I am by no means a writer and therefore have no professional writing
experience or related education beyond Comp 101, and yet I can still write
down a few sentences that make sense, unlike Carrigan.
I even wrote this whole comment on my iPod Touch and still managed to
pull it off! Perhaps that's how he writes his reviews too.
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