14.06.2016
Bastei Lübbe AG DE000A1X3YY0
DGAP-News: HarperCollins Germany and Bastei Lübbe establish joint venture 'HarperCollins bei Lübbe Audio' for the joint exploitation of audio book rights
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HarperCollins Germany and Bastei Lübbe establish joint venture
'HarperCollins bei Lübbe Audio' for the joint exploitation of audio book
rights
14.06.2016 / 11:00
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HarperCollins Germany and Bastei Lübbe establish joint venture
"HarperCollins bei Lübbe Audio"
for the joint exploitation of audio book rights
Hamburg/Cologne, June 14, 2016. The German branch of the second-largest
trade publisher in the world, HarperCollins, and Lübbe Audio, the largest
independent audiobook publisher in Germany, are joining forces in audiobook
production and marketing. In future, all HarperCollins audiobook content in
Germany will be marketed by Lübbe Audio. The joint label will operate as
"HarperCollins bei Lübbe Audio".
"We are delighted about the cooperation. This will strengthen our market
position and provide new and lasting stimulus for the audiobook market. At
the same time, the cooperation is of strategic importance to Bastei Lübbe.
It is set up for the long term and can be expanded in any number of
directions," said Thomas Schierack, CEO of Bastei Lübbe AG.
Thomas Beckmann, Managing Director of HarperCollins Germany added: "For us,
this cooperation is another important step in consolidating HarperCollins'
publishing activities in Germany and finding the best possible outlets for
our authors. Lübbe Audio is an ideal partner for audiobooks as a publisher
with more than 20 years of experience."
The cooperation will begin from July 2016 with one of the top titles from
the summer programme: The novel highly acclaimed by Elke Heidenreich,
"Carrying Albert Home" by Homer Hickam, will be available on the new label
as an unabridged reading in physical and digital form. This will be
followed by other hot titles from authors including Daniel Silva, Karin
Slaughter and Susan Mallery.
In total, the first audiobook programme from HarperCollins bei Lübbe Audio
will comprise 25 titles from the genres crime/thriller, literature and
romance. Renowned narrators beloved by listeners have also already been
signed for the cooperation: In addition to Nina Petri reading the Karin
Slaughter series, others including Meret Brettschneider, Nicole Engeln and
Michael-Che Koch will lend their voices for the autumn programme.
Marc Sieper, the head of the Lübbe Audio label, is looking forward to this
cooperation: "HarperCollins is a perfect partner. Our programmes complement
each other wonderfully. Alongside top titles by the likes of Karin
Slaughter and Tess Gerritsen, series of novels are well-known and
successful terrain for us."
About Bastei Lübbe AG:
Bastei Lübbe AG is an international media group based in Cologne. Its
business operations focus on developing and licensing content distributed
worldwide physically and digitally. The company's core business includes
the traditional publishing business and the periodical puzzle magazines and
novel booklets in the "Book" segment. With its twelve publishers and
imprints, the group of companies currently offers approximately 3,600
titles in fiction, non-fiction and books for children and young adults. In
the growing segment of hardcover fiction, the company has been the market
leader in Germany for many years. At the same time, Bastei Lübbe is driving
innovation in the field of digital media. As well as the production of
thousands of audio and e-books, the "Digital" segment also includes
holdings in the self-publishing platform "BookRix" and the renowned games
publisher "Daedalic Entertainment". Bastei Lübbe AG's value chain is
completed by the investment in the online shop "beam-ebooks.de" and the new
and internationally unique streaming platform "oolipo".
With currently 334 employees and an annual turnover of roughly EUR 110.2
million (financial year 2014/2015), Bastei Lübbe AG is the largest medium-
sized family company in the German publishing industry. Since 2013, the
company's shares have been listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt
Stock Exchange (WKN A1X3YY, ISIN DE000A1X3YY0). Further information is
available at www.luebbe.de.
Contact Bastei Lübbe AG:
Barbara Fischer
Director / Vice President
Public Relations
Tel.: +49 (0) 221 / 82 00 28 50
E-mail: [email protected]
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Language: English
Company: Bastei Lübbe AG
Schanzenstraße 6 - 20
51063 Köln
Germany
Phone: 02 21 / 82 00 - 0
Fax: 02 21 / 82 00 - 1900
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.luebbe.de
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Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover,
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