Open Road Media Forms Digital Publishing Partnership with Peachtree Publishers

Open Road Will Digitally Publish, Distribute, and Market the Fred Bowen Sports Story Series
Partnership Furthers Open Road’s Growing Children’s Publishing Program

(New York—August 21th, 2013)—Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that it has formed a digital publishing partnership with Peachtree Publishers, an independently owned trade book publisher specializing in quality children’s books. The partnership will kick-off with Open Road digitally publishing, distributing, and marketing the 18 titles in the Fred Bowen Sports Story series.

Fred Bowen is the author of Peachtree’s popular Fred Bowen Sports Story series featuring tales about baseball, basketball, football, and soccer. The fiction books are aimed at sports fans aged 7-12 and include a lot of good sports action. There are threads of sports history woven into the fictional stories and each book ends with an explanation of the history in a section called “The Real Story.”

A lifelong sports fanatic, Bowen has coached youth sports for years. His kids’ sports column “The Score” appears each week in the KidsPost section of the Washington Post.

Tim Travaglini from Open Road, “I have watched and admired Peachtree Publishers for many years now as they grew from a regional presence to a national recognized publisher of quality trade books, and am thrilled by the opportunity to partner with them directly.”

Margaret Quinlin, President and Publisher of Peachtree, “We are impressed with this seasoned group of publishers and marketers at Open Book—veritable heavy hitters in the digital book world—and we are excited to join with them to extend Fred Bowen’s readership to young digital natives. This partnership is a home run.”

Peachtree Publishers is the latest children’s publisher to join Open Road’s growing Publishing Partners Program, which also includes Albert Whitman & Company, Annick Press, Kar-Ben Publishing, and Kids Can Press.

About Peachtree

Peachtree Publishers is an independently owned trade book publisher, specializing in quality children’s books, from picture books to young adult fiction and nonfiction. Their mission is to create books that captivate and educate young and old readers alike, with well-crafted words and pictures.