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Category: Publishing News
Multinational Acquisitions of Indie Presses: Implications for Australian Publishing
Most of what happens in Australia stays in Australia, especially publishing news. But when PRH makes an acquisition down under, this is apparently important for us up top to know about.
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Alpine Global Collective: Transforming Publishing Consultancy
“What began as a casual conversation between publishing consultants at an international book fair has evolved into a pioneering consultancy model.”
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USA – Authors Guild Federal Court Victory: Arkansas Book Ban Declared Unconstitutional
“When we allow broad restrictions like Act 372, we don’t just silence authors – we deny readers, particularly young people, the opportunity to see themselves and understand others through literature” – Mary Rasenberger.
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No sign of Gordon Gekko at the 2024 Global 50 CEO (Simon & Schuster/KRR) Talk at Frankfurt
“Not opening the floodgates” (Richard Sarnoff, KKR) is a concession that AI content will flow regardless, and the right way forward is to learn to manage that flow, not try to dam it.
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69% of Oxford University Press (OUP) revenues come from digital
Memo to Markus Dohle: that’s ever so slightly more than 20%. The OUP annual report and among...
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Restructuring at PRH -meaningful, or musical chairs?
In the wake of the Court debacle that led to Markus Dohle’s long-overdue resignation, the...
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Wiley soars thanks to “Record research output and content consumption, robust online enrolment growth, and broad digital courseware adoption”
The pandemic is accelerating trends including a global increase in the demand to publish and...
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PRH Canada devolves RH and Knopf in move that weakens the argument against the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon & Schuster
The move is not related to the Simon & Schuster buyout, and was initially planned for the...
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The IPA’s State of Publishing Reports offer new global perspectives
“There is such a wealth of information in these reports that publishers and publishers’...
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Belgium joins Thailand for Storytel 2020 launch, lining up France, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland among many as possible candidates to join Israel and Indonesia in 2021-3
Storytel Belgium will be run from the Netherlands, setting the scene for Austria, Luxembourg and...
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Germany’s Bookwire and Brazil’s Fênix Editorial join EDRLab (France)
Fênix Editorial (“both a publishing house and a technology company”) joins Bookwire...
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