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News Corp, the parent company of HarperCollins, has formally applied to separate the company into... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corporation said its publishing wing, which is set to be split off as a separate business, incurred losses of $2.1bn in the last financial year. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The media conglomerate, which plans to separate its entertainment businesses from its publishing businesses into two separate listed stocks next year, said the publishing company would have reported a net loss of $2.08 billion in the year through June 30 if it had been a stand-alone company. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired a "powerful wartime novel", Wake by Anna Hope, with plans to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch says News Corp. was not convinced the digital publishing experiment would be viable long-term. The firm also announces a sweeping restructuring.Rupert Murdoch has pulled the plug on News Corp.'s high-profile experiment to create a digital national newspaper. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corporation's The Daily was to have been a vanguard of the future, based on the past -- a tablet-focused newspaper that could get us back to paying subscriptions for our regular news fix. Not enough of us were as enthralled with the retro-future concept, however. While CEO Rupert Murdoch... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Thomson has been named as the head of the separated publishing business soon to be formed... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp. said on Monday that it is shutting down The Daily, its ambitious but expensive attempt to create an iPad newspaper, on Dec. 15. The decision follows a 22-month effort that delivered both some significant achievements—developing the iPad as a publishing platform, for example, and... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Library campaigners have called government plans to scrap equalities assessments and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Social media aggregation site Storify debuted a major aesthetic refresh to its Web site on Tuesday morning, revamping the main homepage and tweaking the site's search tools to better surface the most relevant media among the items from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others that are published... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Participants at the African Media Leaders Forum in Dakar, Senegal, today heard how twinning partnerships between African newspapers, and newspapers elsewhere, are leading the way to developing successful business strategies and strengthening financia ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mumbai's slums, the Iraq war and the fall of Colonel Gaddafi are among the subjects covered by the five titles up for the 2012 Guardian First Book Award. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marie Claire is to debut a near field communications (NFC)-enabled ad in its pages, after striking a deal with healthcare business Nuffield Health. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion has acquired the first two novels from Irish journalist Rachael English. Managing director... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A debut novel translated from French is among the six titles shortlisted for the inaugural... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has expressed interest in buying book publisher Penguin Group, potentially undermining merger discussions between Penguin and Random House, people familiar with the situation said. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sceptre has won a six-way auction to acquire a debut novel described as "impressive... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facing financial and other pressures, the Canadian Booksellers Association voted October 18 to become a division of the Retail Council of Canada, which CBA has been affiliated with since 2009. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot Key Books has acquired three debuts. Natalie Whipple's Transparent follows an invisible... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In splitting News Corp. into two companies, Rupert Murdoch is creating something he hasn't had in years: an Australian media company. By some measures, the publishing company to emerge from the division of News Corp. sometime next year will have ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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