Bonnier News - Finland

Leena Lehtolainen on Making it in America

By Bert Menninga on 2012-02-01
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Finnish crime writer Leena Lehtolainen scores it big with Amazon Publishing. Tammi’s Hannu Harju interviews the author.

Leena Lehtolainen, the bestselling Finnish crime writer published by Tammi Publishers, has made a deal with U.S. publishing conglomerate Amazon Publishing for the world English rights of all her crime novels.

Crowd-Sourcing Olivia

By Bert Menninga on 2012-01-18
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Finland's Olivia breaks new ground, with readers helping decide content for the latest issue of the magazine.

In an age of social media and an increasingly interactive web, what could be more cutting edge than a crowd-sourced magazine - that is, a magazine with content decided on by the readers?

Moomins Get Appy

By Bert Menninga on 2011-11-29
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Finnish publisher Werner Söderström to release Moomin app at the Bologna Book Fair. Publisher Lippo Luukkonen talks about the app and children's literature on tablets.

When beloved Finnish children's author Tove Jansson released her first picture book in 1952, the illustrations weren't just beautifully rendered iconic 1950s design, they were also a true innovation.

MTV Media Buys Eat.fi

By Bert Menninga on 2011-11-22
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Finland's MTV Media to combine its Makuja recipe service with the popular restaurant site Eat.fi.

MTV Media has acquired the business operations of Eat.fi, a Finnish online service enabling users to search for restaurant services. Eat.fi currently has 50,000 visitors a week and more than 40,000 downloads of the mobile app.

Ideas Into Apps

By Bert Menninga on 2011-11-10
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Brilliant apps are the goal at Bonnier Dev Camp in Helsinki later this month. It’s a new idea from magazine publisher Bonnier Publications Oy.

How can you leverage the strength of avid readers, mobile developers and women - and men, too, of course - with bright ideas and turn it into something big? For Finnish magazine publisher Bonnier Publications Oy, the answer is a weekend-long hackathon: the Bonnier Dev Camp.

Hockey Season Set for Canal+ Finland

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-20
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Hockey Friday hits CANAL+ in Finalnd again in November, with new commentators and experts.

CANAL+ has launched its broadcast coverage and commentator line-up for the upcoming season.

Acquisition of WSOY Finalized

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-03
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Bonnier's purchase of WSOY, Finland's leading publisher of general literature, was completed. With the acquisition, Anne Valsta becomes the CEO of WSOY. She will continue also as CEO for book publisher Tammi, which Bonnier acquired in 1996. The new vice president and publisher for WSOY will be Leena Majander-Reenpää.

Jacob Dalborg, CEO for Sweden's Bonnierförlagen, will be the new board chair for WSOY.

The Book Future

By Bert Menninga on 2011-09-21
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We spoke with Bonnierförlagen CEO Jacob Dalborg and Bonnier Media Deutschland CEO Hartmut Jedicke about the new roles each will be taking – Dalborg on the boards of the Finnish and Norwegian book companies and Jedicke as board chair for Bonnier Publishing in the U.K.

Jacob Dalborg and Hartmut Jedicke

What are your goals for the Nordic country operations and Finland in particular, Jacob?

Jacob Dalborg: For my part it's about working to ensure we have clever and competitive strategies for each country and putting our efforts into the literary strengths we have at Bonnier.

New Focus

By Bert Menninga on 2011-09-20
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Maria Curman will be stepping down as CEO for Bonnier Books at the end of 2011 after ten years as CEO.

Photo: Dawid

Maria Curman will be leaving her position as CEO of Bonnier Books and will be focusing instead on her work as a Bonnier board member. As a result, Bonnierförlagen CEO Jacob Dalborg will be taking on responsibilities for Bonnier's Finnish and Norwegian operations within books, and Bonnier Media Deutschland CEO Hartmut Jedicke will become the new board chair for Bonnier Publishing in the U.K.

Read more here.

 

 

Alpo Finds Alma on the iPad

By Bert Menninga on 2011-09-09
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Finnish author-illustrator Jukka Lemmetty's Alpo finds new life in an app for kids.

When Finland's book publisher Tammi decided to do a different kind of e-book for children, it was obvious at this point that the way to go was with an app. "We thought it was important to get started with apps - not just e-books - since for now the app format  is actually even more suitable for doing a children's book," says Mari Männistö, business manager at Tammi. "Previous e-book titles for kids have been more like a traditional book that you can just read on screen," she says.