Zondervan Sells Youth Specialties to Youthworks

Zondervan Publishing, a HarperCollins company, has sold Youth Specialties to Youthworks, a Minneapolis based organization founded in 1994 that heretofore, most of us in this country have never heard of.   The deal was announced by Youthworks on November 20th and reiterated jointly by YS.    It is unclear what this means for the development of future products published under the Youth Specialties or Invert imprints, the release states that “the publishing rights will remain with Zondervan.”

The news has created some discussion in the blogosphere, including comments by Tony Jones,  David Lambert, former YS head Mark Oestreicher (who was released several days previous), and current staffer Adam McLine, just to name a few.