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Judge Florence Y. Pan ruled today that the acquisition of Simon & Schuster by Penguin Random House could not go forward. The ruling was explicitly to protect the “competition” for the “anticipated top-selling books”. In other words, the big books by big authors for which only the Big Five can compete regularly (with occasional bids…

Former Blackwell’s c.e.o. David Prescott has been awarded the Booksellers Association award for Outstanding Contribution.

The president of the Booksellers Association (BA) is urging a "mature debate" on scrapping printed cover prices on books, as indies look to offset soaring expenses during the cost of living crisis. 

Ekow Eshun and Mathelinda Nabugodi are the two UK winners of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. 

Exhausted on the Cross by the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and published by New York Review Books, has won the 2022 Sarah Maguire Prize for poetry in translation.

Milly Reid is leaving Quercus to join Transworld as head of publicity for Doubleday.

Fane has engaged marketing agency Dark Matter for a six-month period to help the business reach, develop and maintain Black audiences for its events programme and subscription offerings. 

In the United States, Judge Pan rules against the merger of trade book publishers Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. The post Court Blocks PRH-Simon & Schuster Acquisition appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Less than two years after passing the 1,000th open-access book milestone, Springer Nature now has 2,000 open-access book titles. The post Springer Nature Reaches 2,000 International Open-Access Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Justice department argued the melding of the publishing house with Simon & Schuster would harm competition and authors’ payA US judge has blocked the $2.2bn planned merger of Penguin Random House, the world’s largest book publisher, with rival Simon & Schuster.Judge Florence Pan of the US district court for the District of Columbia said in…