Penguin Random House Merger with Santillana will force the Brazilian operation to choose whether to stay or leave the powerful DLD digital distribution platform.
Brazil’s DLD E-book Distribution Platform Opens For Business
A year after six Brazilian publishers launched the DLD e-book distribution platform, it opens for business today. By Carlo Carrenho In March 2010, six Brazilian publishers –- Objetiva (partially owned by Santillana), Record, Sextante, Rocco, Planeta and L&PM — teamed up to launch an e-book distribution company called Distribuidora de Livros Digitais (DLD). The business model has several similarities with …