MBI Publishing Co. has bought Voyageur Press, the Stillwater, Minn.,
company that specializes in travel, nature and country living, and will
make it an imprint of MBI.
Voyageur staff, including editorial director Michael Dregni, associate publisher Dave Hohman and managing editor Andrea Rud--all of whom have worked at MBI--will move to MBI's offices in St. Paul, Minn., by September 1. Voyageur's distribution clients--Specialty Press, CarTech, Colin Baxter Photography, Tetra Press, Fountain Press and Hove Books--will be distributed by the new company. Voyageur publisher Tom Lebovsky and CFO Jim Heintz are retiring.
Currently MBI consists of three imprints: Motorbooks, which not surprisingly publishes car, motorcycle and motorsport titles; Zenith Press, which focuses on military history, national security and aviation; and MBI, which schedules books on trains, tractors, boats, bicycles and hobbies. MBI also distributes for 25 publishers.
As of August 1, all Voyageur Press orders and correspondence should go to the MBI Distribution Center, 729 Prospect Ave., Osceola, Wis. 54020; 800-458-0454; fax 715-294-4448.
Founded in 1972 by Robert DuBois, Voyageur publishes 40 titles a year. Its lead book for the fall is Surfing USA! An Illustrated History of the Coolest Sport of All Time by Ben Marcus, former editor of Surfing magazine ($35, 0-89658-690-1).
Voyageur staff, including editorial director Michael Dregni, associate publisher Dave Hohman and managing editor Andrea Rud--all of whom have worked at MBI--will move to MBI's offices in St. Paul, Minn., by September 1. Voyageur's distribution clients--Specialty Press, CarTech, Colin Baxter Photography, Tetra Press, Fountain Press and Hove Books--will be distributed by the new company. Voyageur publisher Tom Lebovsky and CFO Jim Heintz are retiring.
Currently MBI consists of three imprints: Motorbooks, which not surprisingly publishes car, motorcycle and motorsport titles; Zenith Press, which focuses on military history, national security and aviation; and MBI, which schedules books on trains, tractors, boats, bicycles and hobbies. MBI also distributes for 25 publishers.
As of August 1, all Voyageur Press orders and correspondence should go to the MBI Distribution Center, 729 Prospect Ave., Osceola, Wis. 54020; 800-458-0454; fax 715-294-4448.
Founded in 1972 by Robert DuBois, Voyageur publishes 40 titles a year. Its lead book for the fall is Surfing USA! An Illustrated History of the Coolest Sport of All Time by Ben Marcus, former editor of Surfing magazine ($35, 0-89658-690-1).