Connect Group sells Education and Care division

Connect Books’ parent company has sold off one of its businesses for a value of £64.4m. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Melania Really Doesn’t Care

Her new memoir is a master class in how selective attention and empathy can insulate someone from the pains that trouble the rest of us. Continue reading at The Atlantic

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How the Far-Right Uses Educational Takeover to Impose Its Agenda

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Barnes & Noble Education Looks for Improvement in Fiscal 2025

In the quarter just before the fall rush season begins, B&NE saw sales of its inclusive access programs rise 32% as it continued its efforts to better control costs. Overall, profits slipped 0.3%, to $263.4 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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After Years of Depression, a Best-Selling Author Confronts What Haunted Him

In his new novel, Matt Haig goes back to the place where he fell apart — Ibiza, Spain — and reclaims it. Continue reading at The New York Times

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HarperCollins Moves Harvest to Morrow Group; Diana Baroni to Lead Harvest, Harper Wave

Baroni, formerly SVP, editor-in-chief, and publisher of Harmony Books and Rodale Books at Penguin Random House, will join HarperCollins on October 7 as SVP and publisher for Harvest and Harper Wave, which will now both be housed under the Morrow Group. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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A Civic Education in YA: YA Book Talk and News, August 22, 2024

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SPCK Group Signs Distribution Deal with Two Rivers Distribution

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Eurospan Finds a New Home at the Mare Nostrum Group

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State sends $500M to community groups to run new Medicaid pilot

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Publishers group STEM and STEAM-based children’s titles for discovery and appeal.

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Publishers group STEM and STEAM-based children’s titles for discovery and appeal.

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Frankfurter Buchmesse’s 2024 Rights Center Sells Out

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Overlooked No More: Ursula Parrott, Best-Selling Author and Voice for the Modern Woman

Her writing, about marriage and divorce, sex and its consequences, work-life balance, the challenges of child-rearing and other topics, still resonates today. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Vice, Kotaku, Refinery29 to no longer publish in Australia after Pedestrian Group announces restructure

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Barnes & Noble Education Puts a Wrap on a Turbulent Fiscal 2024

The college bookstore operator closed the fiscal year ended April 27, 2024, with a smaller loss than fiscal 2023, new financing, a new CEO, and a new board. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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The First American Union Understood The Necessity of Public Libraries and Education: Book Censorship News for June 28, 2024

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Goodway Group quietly lays off employees in ‘rounds’ in ongoing workforce reduction

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A Book Club of Two: The Time I Started a James Joyce Reading Group in College

I’d bought my copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses at a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan in 1999, the summer before I left for college, along with a stack of other novels that I was convinced my much-smarter classmates would have already read. How I even decided which novels those were, I am still not... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Harper Group Launches Nonfiction Imprint, Harper Influence

Senior VP Lisa Sharkey has been tapped to helm Harper Influence, which will publish a "wide range of nonfiction spanning popular culture," including general lifestyle, entertainment, and inspiration. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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