Scholastic Selling Tech Group to HMH

Scholastic has reached an agreement to sell its educational technology group to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for $575 million. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses

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Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them

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PRH Led in Children’s Picture Book Bestsellers in 2023, While Scholastic Took Top Spot in Fiction

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IAB Tech Lab presents Google with Privacy Sandbox gap analysis following Annual Leadership Meeting

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Amazon's Audible is laying off 5% of its workforce, marking another round of job cuts in tech

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Vignette Books Succeeds In Selling Surprise Vintage Titles

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A History of Ad Tech Chapter 4: The Privacy Reckoning

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