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Man the barricades. An appeal to the French court has resulted in defeat for the family of Victor Hugo who wished to prevent an Alexandra Ri...

The sale of Reed Business Information is rumored to be close to resolution with Bain Capital as the buyer. Apparently according to sources ...

Dismal week for retailing with B&N reporting slower than anticipated sales and a reduced expectation for their full year. No one (in an...

What's going on in the Indian publishing market. 15% growth per year isn't bad. ( Link ): When all sectors of industries seem to b...

The short list for Australia's richest literary prize was announced earlier in the week. The final five contenders were narrowed down fr...

Numerous articles on the Frankfurt Bookfair. Mokoto Rich in the NYTimes has two articles on translating foreign works. Looking for foreign...

Library Journal reports that the lawsuit between Google and the AAP may be on the cusp of being settled: Nearly three years after its initi...

The UK publishing market is bracing for potential credit issues with the wholesaler Bertrams. Bertrams were acquired by Woolworths which app...

News on the Reed Elsevier sale of the magazine group. The set-up for the deal may be unravelling. FT : The RBI sale, one of the few live a...

New York Times reports on text book sales and pricing. “The person who pays for the book, the parent or the student, doesn’t choose it,” he...

CEO of Indigo Books in Canada Heather Reisman answers some questions for Canadian Business . It was less interesting for me until I got to t...

Someone (Michael Birch, founder of Bebo) thinks they can reinvent the dictionary: Telegraph The site will feature traditional word definit...

The E-Book comes to England and Timesonline is there to mark the occasion: Electronic books have had a lot of false dawns. People have had ...

TimeOut wants BBC out of Publishing ( TOLine ): Tony Elliott, the owner of Time Out, the entertainment listings magazine, called for a break...

The NYTimes looks at The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. NYT. Gannett is the latest Newspaper to cut headcount. SFGate . A very interesting...

The Guardian reports that British magazine publishers are facing pressure from retailer ASDA for more quid-pro-quo on shelf space in their ...

The Telegraph reports on another media deal in the works concerning Wilmington a publisher of Press Gazette and legal and charity databases...

NY Times looks at textbook piracy: The transition has already begun, even while publishers continue to sell print editions. They are pitchi...

Amazon.com speaks to the NYTimes about cloud computing. Customers of Amazon’s new store will be able to start watching any of 40,000 movi...

Some headlines from this past weeks publishing and media actitivity. The Canadian Publishing industry sees a slight decline from the prior ...