The Hobbit Publishing Agreements Announced

HarperCollinsPublishers and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have announced they have signed up to create official tie-in products for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Harper will do the international side while Houghton handles the US market. The companies have been involved with publishing Tolkien books and Lord of the Rings movie stuff for years now. The five titles for November 2012 release are The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Visual Companion by Jude Fisher, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Official Movie Guide by Brian Sibley, The World of the Hobbits, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Almanac and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Photo Storybook. The press releases can be found here and here.