Olin Corp. said Monday that it has added two directors to its board as part of a new agreement with activist investor Sachem Head Capital Management LP, which owns about a 9.5% interest in the chemical manufacturer. Olin said Scott Ferguson, Sachem Head's founder and managing partner, and William Barnes Hauptfuhrer have been named to the company's board, effective immediately. With the appointments, Olin has expanded its board from 12 to 14 directors, 13 of whom are independent and six of whom will… Continue reading at 'Silicon Valley Business Journal'
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New York Comic Con returns with a streamlined Harvey Awards and a new anime and manga festival. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After reporting disappointing Q1 results on Thursday, Barnes & Noble saw its stock price jump on Friday following a new investment by Richard Schottenfeld, the head of an eponymous investment firm that took a 5.58% stake in the book chain in July. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Talking, among other things, of developing an loyalty program for consumers based in blockchain tokens, a spokesman for Poland's Merlin.pl talks about its latest move to gain dominance in the market. The post Poland’s Online Bookseller Merlin.pl Acquires Profit M, Expanding Its Footprint in the... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The independent tech review site has made big hires from Facebook and Wirecutter to grow its presence in live video, commerce and events. The post Digital Trends, a rare profitable and growing independent publisher, looks to expand appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: an account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, plus the latest book from Jacqueline Woodson. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: a James Baldwin children's book, plus a contemporary and provocative take on 'Frankenstein.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Mantle, a New York publisher focused on African fiction, has just published its first work of from outside the continent: the novel 'Sweden' by New Zealander Matthew Turner. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At Frankfurter Buchmesse's new Frankfurt Pavilion by day and in city venues by night, an expanded BookFest program focuses on bringing more authors to the fair and to the public this October. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse Expands Its Citywide ‘BookFest’ in October appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cancer sufferer Lisa Wells has chosen illustrators Tim Budgen and Catalina Eccheveri to work on There’s Only One of Me, her picture book about the death of a parent. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Works by established poets Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy and Lemn Sissay will be recommended for this year’s National Poetry Day alongside insta-poet Charly Cox and children’s poets Rachel Rooney and Joseph Coelho. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: a William Shakespeare mystery, plus the drug company that addicted America. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hobby publisher Kalmbach Media and Spanish-based hobby modeling and media company AK-Interactive have entered into a partnership this week where Kalmbach will serve as the exclusive North American publishing partner for AK-Interactive's Damaged, Weathered & Worn Models magazine. The modeling... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: Jules Feiffer's latest noir comic, plus how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quarto co-founder Laurence Orbach has stepped down from its board, in the latest twist to his involvement with the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The students from Florida who founded ‘March For Our Lives’ after a high school shooting are collaborating on a book with Penguin Random House Children’s. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: when being ghosted by a date might be more sinister, plus the gritty, rich history of the Bowery. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Evaluating the 'reimagined' BookExpo 2018, the IBPA board–for 34 years a BookExpo exhibitor–votes to forgo a cooperative booth in 2019, as in 2018: 'There is little reason for a publisher not part of the traditional eco-system to exhibit on the trade show floor.' The post IBPA Board Votes... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: a summer job on a New York ambulance, plus a creepy, can’t-put-it-down thriller about motherhood. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UNITE 2018, the annual international convention hosted by the Association for Christian Retail, took place in Nashville, Tenn., from July 8-11, sharing news of a large investment designed to change the industry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kavanaugh, in a 2017 dissent, likened ISPs to bookstores, and calls the FCC’s net neutrality rules “half-baked” and “foreign” to the First Amendment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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