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Quad/Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: QUAD) ("Quad/Graphics" or the "Company") and Courier Corporation (Nasdaq: CRRC) ("Courier") jointly announced a definitive agreement by which Quad/Graphics will acquire Courier, a leading innovator in book manufacturing, publishing and content management. The acquisition accelerates Quad/Graphics' three-year strategy to transform its book platform, which the Company announced earlier this week.

William Blake is not only one of England’s most celebrated and beloved literary and artistic sons worldwide, he is also author of what has become the unofficial English national anthem, “Jerusalem.” Yet the cottage in Felpham, Sussex, where he composed “Jerusalem” is now up for sale to private buyers after UK cultural bodies failed to […]

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The best-selling horror author James Herbert, described as ‘one of the giants of popular fiction’, died yesterday aged 69. Mr Herbert, who wrote horror classic The Rats, died only a week after his 23rd novel, Ash, was published. He was prolific, releasing a new novel almost every year between 1974 and 1988, but said he remained ‘very insecure’ about his skills as a writer.