J. Boylston & Co. announced that is has acquired the companies owned by the late Byron Preiss, ibooks, Milk & Cookies Press, and Byron Preiss Visual Publications, out of bankruptcy. J. Boylston plans to continue publishing new works of similar merit and will sustain the extensive backlist of science fiction, fantasy, history, popular culture and military non-fiction titles.
According to Boylston sister company Brick Tower Press publisher John T. Colby Jr., graphic novels will be part of the mix. 'We do plan to publish graphic novels, I just don't know which ones at the moment,' he told us, citing the state of the Preiss companies' records as the reason for the lack of a definitive answer.
The Preiss companies' titles will continue to be distributed by Publishers Group West, which will also add Brick Tower Press to its roster as part of the deal.
The Preiss companies went into bankruptcy earlier in the year (see 'ibooks & Byron Preiss Visual Publications File Chapter 7') following the sudden death of founder Byron Preiss last year (see 'In Memoriam: Byron Preiss').
