Hedge-fund KKR buys Simon & Schuster. A Gordon Gekko moment or a digital beacon of hope?
KKR CEO Pete Stavros will be listening carefully to Richard Sarnoff, and looking closely at what...
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Author: Mark Williams
India’s “Festival of Libraries 2023” runs Aug 5-6 in New Delhi
Sadly such divisions and Luddite thinking will continue prevent India from taking its rightful...
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KKR now likely to buy S&S for 27% less than PRH tried to pay. But are hedge-funds good for the industry?
As a one-off acquisition, the Simon & Schuster deal is not deeply worrying, but the broader...
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Turkey’s Competition Authority is investigating Storytel
“But each country makes its own laws, and if Turkish law expressly forbids such behaviour,...
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Digital could help reduce Nepal’s rampant book piracy problem
More often than not, pirated copies are poor quality, and do not represent value for money....
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