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Houghton Mifflin Trade Division Sold to HarperCollins
“A solid deal for a company that has shown a shrewd eye for a good buy, going back to 2014 and the Harlequin acquisition,” says PW’s Albanese.
Knowledge Graphs Give Smart Answers
On Wednesday, March 31, at 11 a.m. Eastern time, CCC presents a special Town Hall program – “Solve for Success: The Transformative Power of Data Visualization.”
Bookselling’s Top Players
In 2020, books and bookstores found ways to capture and hold the public’s attention.
Fact-Checkers For Europe
Across the European Union, fact-checkers, media literacy experts, and academic researchers are collaborating to fight online disinformation.
Academic Titans Reach Terms
Elsevier is the world’s largest scholarly publisher and publishes more than 500,000 articles annually in 2,500 journals, while the University of California system includes more than 280,000 students and more than 227,000 faculty and staff.
Diversity Drives Innovation
“We need to get to those communities who have not traditionally been engaged and make sure that they have access to STEM programs,” says SIIA President Jeff Joseph.
As Virus Numbers Fall, Hopes Rise in Books Sector
“Over the last two decades of digital disruption and global economic meltdowns, the most important things to make for a good sales year [for the book business] were consumers with disposable income and a reasonable level of confidence in the economy,” says PW’s Andrew Albanese.
Publishers Compact Boosts UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
“Publishers are the catalysts of societal change. Through what we publish, we can not only influence agendas around sustainability today, but also in the many years to come,” says Michiel Kolman of Elsevier and IPA.
Six Seuss Titles “Hurtful and Wrong”
By providing children with diverse books, we open up the world to them and encourage their wonder and awe. And we show kids that diversity is the nature of humanity.
Pirates and Publishers
Forget what you learned about the origin of printing. Movable type using Chinese porcelain pegs was invented by Bi Sheng in 1040, four centuries before Gutenberg and his press. And where there is printing, there is copyright, too. So, yes, you can also forget that other myth, the one that says China and copyright are incompatible.
Cicilline Sees Amazon In Antitrust Focus
Times have changed, Rep. Cicilline said, and ‘we must level the playing field.’
Spreading The Word – Rights and Royalties For Podcasts And Spoken Word
Podcasts and other types of spoken word content are an especially rapidly growing category of streaming and downloadable audio.