French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday evening (24th November) that bookshops and other “non-essential” retailers would be able to reopen on Saturday after a month’s lockdown.
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Forward Arts Foundation executive director Susannah Herbert has announced she is stepping down after eight years in the role.
Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Penguin) has risen into the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction top spot, after debuting a week ago, ahead of its publication.
The Curtis Brown Creative Writing school is launching a Breakthrough Writers’ Programme, which features fully funded courses, mentoring and scholarships for underrepresented writers.
The ability to enter new worlds through literature and the joy of a good book has proven to be a source of solace and comfort nationwide throughout the pandemic. We've seen the evidence of this through booming book sales in the first lockdown, with data from the BBC showing a rise in fiction sales by…
PRH owner Bertelsmann is to buy Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for $2.2bn, it has been announced.
Under the transatlantic pressure of writers' associations and unions, Audible offers a concession. And the authors say it's not enough. The post International Authors’ Groups Not Satisfied in #Audiblegate Dispute appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
Under the transatlantic pressure of writers' associations and unions, Audible offers a concession. And the authors say it's not enough. The post International Authors’ Groups Not Satisfied in #Audiblegate Dispute appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
German media firm, already owner of the giant Penguin Random House, says acquisition of another major publisher is ‘approvable’ within monopoly rulesGerman media group Bertelsmann is set to acquire publisher Simon & Schuster for $2.17bn, less than a year after it took control of Penguin Random House (PRH).Bertelsmann outbid Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which owns…
Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann will acquire Simon & Schuster. If the sale is approved by regulators, the Big Five will become the the Big Four. The post Germany’s Bertelsmann To Buy Simon & Schuster for US$2.175 Billion appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.