McGraw-Hill Education Sold for $2.5 Billion to Investor

McGraw-Hill has signed an agreement to sell its education business, McGraw-Hill Education, to investment firm Apollo Global Management for $2.5 billion. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 Things We Learned at Digital Book World 2014

A few key take-aways from DBW 2014: teens aren't reading for fun, ebook sales grow overseas, Wall Street discounts publishing and Amazon is like modern art. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan restructures education division

Macmillan Science and Education has structured its education division into three global business... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 Trends for Academic Publishing in 2014

Following yesterday's look at trade publishing, George Lossius, CEO of Publishing Technology, predicts five trends for the academic publishing sector in 2014. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charter makes a $61 billion bid for Time Warner Cable, could be the first of many

After months of trying to negotiate a deal behind the scenes, Charter Communications is publishing details of its offer to buy Time Warner Cable (which split from Time Warner years ago). Despite a bid that including debt is enough to nab 20 or so ... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 Trends for Trade Publishing in 2014

George Lossius, CEO at Publishing Technology, predicts 5 trends for trade publishing for the year, including a boost for big data and a focus on formats. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 Intriguing Things: Monday, 1/13

Web privacy tips, vanilla pollination, robot law, big book data, and the children of a Moscow garbage dump.     Continue reading at The Atlantic

[ The Atlantic | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comixology: Six Billion Digital Comics Served

The digital comics platform and marketplace Comixology continues to extend the reach of new comics to comics consumers and finished the year as the Top Grossing non-game app for iPad 2013. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IBM's Watson For Business: The $1 Billion Siri Slayer

IBM is unveiling their new Watson for Business on Thursday, a $1 billion project devoted to bringing big data to every educational institution, pharmaceutical firm, and publishing house in America--and they're offering more than $100 million in venture capital to developers.IBM is announcing the... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Murray Hill leaves Scholastic for Egmont

Egmont has appointed Hilary Murray Hill [pictured] as m.d. of a newly created Books division,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Richard Desmond appoints Barclays to explore sale of Channel 5

Process at a very early stage and follows owner taking soundings from television rivals including ITVRichard Desmond has appointed Barclays to advise on a possible sale of Channel 5, after turning the loss making Big Brother broadcaster into a profitable operation.The process is understood to be... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon 'sold close to 40m items on Cyber Monday'

Amazon has said it took orders for more than 36.8 million items worldwide on Cyber Monday (2nd... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Riggio Sells 2 Million B&N Shares

Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio sold 2 million of his shares in the bookstore chain on Tuesday for $13.81 a share. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With Interest From Asia, Mid-Core Game Developer nWay Raises $5 Million Series A

NWay, the two-year-old gaming startup behind the Facebook game Chrono Blade, has raised a $5 million Series A round. Co-founder and CEO Taehoon Kim said TransLink Capital, which led the round, is well connected in Asia and that the action RPG has generated interest from Asian publishers. The... Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible buys rights to 5,000 AudioGO titles

Amazon-owned audiobook seller Audible has bought rights to 5,000 of AudioGO's titles.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VIDEO: Wonderland artist's books sold

A collection of first edition books illustrated by the Edwardian artist Arthur Rackham has sold for more than £40,000 at auction. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Polaroid Kids Tablet 2 comes loaded with apps from Cartoon Network, Disney and Marvel

A kid-friendly tablet often isn't enough by itself to keep little tykes happy -- you have to get the content they want, too. Polaroid is counting on this formula to lure parents to its newly available Kids Tablet 2. The 7-inch slate comes preloaded with the full versions of 70-plus apps and... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 5 Secrets To Sheryl Sandberg's Super Powers

Sheryl Sandberg helped Facebook post some insane numbers: after their IPO debacle of May 2012, shares have gone up 140% in the past year, to about $50. As Miguel Helft writes for Fortune, that's partly due to the company's reorganization around mobile, which critics once bashed them for being... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ibrahimović shortlisted for William Hill

The shortlist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award has been announced, with Zlatan... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Damage Estimate Shows $1.54 Billion in E-book Revenue

In a filing last week, attorneys for the states and consumer class put Apple’s estimated damages for its role in an ebook price-fixing conspiracy with publishers at nearly $308 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Romania’s ReadForward Angles to Be “Facebook for Education”

Bucharest-based developer Read Forward has produced original ebooks, luxury digital editions of classics and is now moving into education, with fully interactive HTML5 textbooks. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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