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Clarivate (ex Thomson Reuters company) announced their intention to acquire Proquest.  From the press release : Clarivate plc (NYSE: CLVT ),...

Attorney's Sperling & Slater acting on behalf of three eBook buying plaintiffs are suing Amazon and the "big 5" publishers...

Bertelsmann buying Simon & Schuster. No doubt you've read about this acquisition and here are some of the articles.  Many are taking...

News on Sunday that News Corp were considering a look at Penguin suggested that the dealings could get exciting but with this morning's ...

News that Pearson has purchased the self-publishing roll-up Author House reminded me of this post from September 19, 2007 which I wrote just...

It would be hard to imagine that a less equal business relationship exists than that between publishers and libraries.  Without even the se...

Inside Higher Ed interviews author Kathleen Fitzpatrick about her views on scholarly publishing ( IHEd ): Although peer review is often po...

From the company's press release : Group revenues rise to €7.2 billion Operating EBIT high again at €737 million Return on sales con...

Originally posted April 12, 2007 Over the last 100 years (probably) US publishers have dithered over whether to use their facilities for t...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens on March 19th and is set to play in Chelsea and Lincoln Center. The Swedish movie has already grossed...

OK, so Peter Olson has been gone a while but apparently he still lives in Marion Maneker's memory: ( Reuters) Legendary Simon and Schus...

From their press release : After nine months of the 2008 financial year, Bertelsmann reported a solid business development. The internationa...

Article in the New York Observer about Random House and Marcus Dohle. They contrast RH with the fortunes of the Hachette Book Group althou...

DailyLit is a pathfinder in the selling of books in serial format. The company has only been around for a short time but already has an inv...

The search term 'Marcus Dohle ' sat highest on the list of queries to hit the blog site yesterday, so it was apparent to me that the...

Random House corporate parent Bertelsmann reported improved quarterly operating profit performance and remains optimistic about the remainde...

On Monday Random House UK announced that they will make as many as 5,000 titles available for previewing on their web site . The application...

Media giant Bertelsmann reported their annual results this morning with net income dropping significantly versus 2006 due to the performance...

The WSJ (via Reuters) is reporting that Random House will begin experimenting with the sale of chapters from their web site. The report sug...

In what I expect with be the first of many similar relationships, SharedBook has formed an alliance with Random House to create personalize...