Brokerage of titles, license agreements and publishing-houses

Publishers develop along totally different lines. This means that activities that once belonged to the core-business are not longer regarded of vital importance to the company;

• Initiators are not in the nature of things the best qualified people to exploit a title or a portfolio of publications and moreover often they lack the financial means to achieve in time the needed economies of scale;
  innovators wish to reinvest the free-floating means for the development of new products and services.
• The lack of sound successors and the wish to enjoy the life after retirement might be the reasoning why one wants to sell titles or publishing houses.
• Management buy-outs ask for a fair price determination.
• Small publishers need a minimum economy of scale to achieve the earning power required and hence want to adjust their portfolio by buying relevant titles.
• Some markets are naturally international and that's why publishers targeting those markets need to operate worldwide with one specialised title or to operate worldwide with regional editions or leading national magazines.
• A prerequisite for brokerage is that the principal knows well ahead that the broker acts solely on his behalf. That's why it is a necessity that one operates exclusively based on a signed contract that mandates the broker to act exclusively on behalf of either the seller or the buyer. Even so with tenders.
• Principals for sales could be the owner of the titles or the portfolio of publications as well as the publishing house.
• In cases of existing direct contacts between the seller and the buyer we advice -again either seller or buyer- on the fairness of a bid. We can compare this figure with the amounts realized in practise in cases where we have been involved but always keeping in mind that these magnitudes will not be known to anyone but the parties directly involved.

If you want to know what kind of mandates we actually handle we refer you to Publishers Plaza. Detailed information on the cases handled by us will only be supplied after a duly signed copy of a confidentiality agreement has been received.

If you want to receive information on 'anonimous' advertising either as a seller or buyer you can email us at broker@kingpmc.com. If you prefer to receive an offer including the conditions for a brokerage agreement we ask you to send us information on the title or publishing company you want to sell or to acquire by emailing us at info@kingpmc.com or use the response form. This information will be treated confidential and merely used as a tool to be able to make a proper offer. If this offer might not result in an order we guarantee that the information will be destroyed by us.