Trade

Books from Bloomsbury, Verso and Faber are longlisted for the £59,000 Cundill History Prize.

A "bold and creative" marketing campaign for the 2023 Capital Crime Festival has been unveiled.

The New York Times has reported that a deal announcement for the sale of Simon & Schuster (S&S) could be imminent. 

The acquisition of Simon & Schuster by KKR, Jonathan Karp says, is enhanced by KKR's interest in company growth and employee equity. The post KKR Agrees To Buy Simon & Schuster for $1.62 Billion appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Paramount Global has sold the publisher after a federal judge blocked rival Penguin Random House from buying itSimon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House because of concerns that competition would shrink in the book market.The private…

The Financial Times is joined this year by Schroders, with added support from Nikkei, in the £30,000 Business Book of the Year award. The post In London, Schroders Backs the Business Book of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

34% of young adults used YouTube to discover books, compared to 32% who used TikTok.

The Edinburgh International Book Festival has announced that Greta Thunberg’s event, which was due to take place on Sunday 13th August, will no longer go ahead, with Thunberg citing the event’s ties with investment management company Baillie Gifford as the reason. 

The Financial Times and global investment management firm Schroders have agreed a new partnership for the FT Business Book of the Year Award.

Tributes have been paid to Adrienne Vaughan, the president of Bloomsbury Publishing USA, who is confirmed to have died in a boat collision while on holiday in Italy on Thursday 3rd August.