Pearson and Dow Jones sell stakes in Russian newspaper

Pearson and Dow Jones have agreed to sell their stakes in Russian newspaper Vedomosti, before legislation restricting foreign ownership in Russia comes into force in the New Year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Liz Jones comic debut on eating disorders goes to Matthew James

Former Marie Claire editor-in-chief and Mail on Sunday columnist Liz Jones will release her eating disorder-inspired debut comic novel next year, released by Matthew James Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 06:52:00 UTC ]
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Our Bodies, Ourselves: On Saeed Jones’s “How We Fight for Our Lives”

THE QUEER COMING-OF-AGE MEMOIR is a weapon against erasure. The best of these memoirs move us by daring to be profoundly specific, providing a necessary consolation to readers who might have believed until then that they were alone in the dark. That their suffering would have no choice but to... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-24 13:30:59 UTC ]
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Mabey hails Oneworld fiction list as Jones, Dean and Schweblin reveal 2020 titles

Oneworld showcased its Spring 2020 highlights last night, as publisher Juliet Mabey toasted ten years of success.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 00:07:43 UTC ]
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'It's never too early to share a book', says Paul Howard-Jones at Annual BookTrust lecture

Educational neuroscientist and Channel 4’s "The Secret Lives of Five Year Olds" expert Paul Howard-Jones has urged parents to read to their children to boost youngsters’ maths skills, in the Annual BookTrust Lecture. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-20 12:52:17 UTC ]
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Gannett, Now Largest U.S. Newspaper Chain, Targets ‘Inefficiencies’

The merger of GateHouse Media and Gannett is now final, creating the largest newspaper publisher in the nation and raising concerns about the industry’s future. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-11-19 23:46:16 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to sell Whitaker’s Almanack

Bloomsbury is selling reference guide Whitaker’s assets, including the current edition, the online database, and backlist editions dating back to 1869. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 07:38:43 UTC ]
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Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other sells in 21 deals with TV auction underway

Following Bernardine Evaristo’s historic Booker Prize win, translation rights to her novel Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) have been snapped up in 21 territories. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 06:13:51 UTC ]
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After Its Merger, Gannett Will Be the Largest Newspaper Publisher in the U.S.

Shareholders approved a deal to combine GateHouse Media, which has received SoftBank funding, with the publisher of USA Today. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-11-14 20:26:07 UTC ]
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Findlay Publishing Company Sold to Ogden Newspapers

Ogden Newspapers will purchase The Courier of Findlay and the Review Times of Fostoria from the Findlay Publishing Co., according Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-11-13 19:39:46 UTC ]
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Tickets for Elton John Waterstones book signing sell out in 10 seconds

Tickets for Elton John's book signing at Waterstones Piccadilly sold out in less than 10 seconds when they went on sale yesterday. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-13 19:30:23 UTC ]
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In Germany, Focusing on This Metric Let a Newspaper Increase Reader Loyalty (and Subscribers Too)

The German publisher DuMont didn’t always track loyalty among its readers. Instead, its editors did what many in the news Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-11-12 16:04:08 UTC ]
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Amazon offers teachers a place to sell resources they create

Amazon has opened a storefront and publishing platform for people to buy and sell K-12 educational materials. People who create such resources can upload them for others to purchase. Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2019-11-12 15:32:00 UTC ]
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Hungry Caterpillar author Eric Carle sells company to PRH

Eric Carle, the author and illustrator behind such children's classics as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has decided at the age of 90 to sell his company to Penguin Random House. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-06 09:00:10 UTC ]
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Maya Jama, Suranne Jones and Gemma Cairney to narrate Gender Rebels

Actress Suranne Jones and presenters Maya Jama and Gemma Cairney have joined author Anneka Harry to narrate her debut book Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers (W F Howes). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-04 18:24:12 UTC ]
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Scribe staffers get 'reading day' for 1000-page Russian epic

Scribe UK staff are taking a reading day on 7th November, the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, to celebrate and immerse themselves in a 1000-page translated epic: The Eighth Life by Georgian novelist Nino Haratischvili. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-30 10:49:04 UTC ]
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AT&T bows to pressure from activist investor, may sell ailing DirecTV unit

Mere weeks after activist investor Elliott Management publicly pressed AT&T to slash costs and dial down its acquisitions strategy, it appears as if Chairman-CEO Randall Stephenson has knuckled under to those demands. Speaking today on AT&T’s third-quarter earnings call, Stephenson laid... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-28 20:32:03 UTC ]
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Forget New York. For writer Saeed Jones, Columbus, Ohio, is the place to be a literary star.

The author of “How We Fight For Our Lives” explains why he left the Big Apple for the Midwest Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-22 19:00:00 UTC ]
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Meredith Sells Money Magazine Brand, Nearly Two Years After Time Inc. Merger

Meredith Corp. has sold the Money magazine brand to Ad Practitioners LLC, a three-year-old Puerto Rico-based media and advertising startup behind the product review site ConsumersAdvocate.org, both parties announced Tuesday morning. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. One of a handful of... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-10-22 16:06:17 UTC ]
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Australian newspapers black out front pages to fight back against secrecy laws

United campaign by media companies highlights government moves to penalise whistleblowing and criminalise journalism • Lenore Taylor: Concrete action rather than nice words are needed on press freedomThe front page of every newspaper in Australia was blacked out on Monday as part of a campaign... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-10-20 22:51:36 UTC ]
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To Sell More Books, S&S Hits the Road

The S&S Selects PrePub Tour sends authors of books due out next season from Simon & Schuster’s five adult imprints across the country to schmooze with literary tastemakers around the country. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
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