Bertelsmann may place a bid for Simon & Schuster
“We’ve been the most active player on the consolidation of the book publishing market in the last 10 years.” This is not the most obvious thing to brag about if… Read more »
Roxy Jacenko book pulped due to error; publishers worldwide break out in cold sweat
Hot on the heels of our report about a batch of Super Mario-inspired poems printed with, ahem, extremely unexpected contents, it’s been another classic week for regrettable production errors. Falling unfortunately foul of the editorial… Read more »
Going, going, gone! The rush sale of The Financial Times
The Financial Times newspaper was sold yesterday to the Japanese financial media group Nikkei. The FT had been owned by Pearson Publishing Group, one of the biggest players in the… Read more »
In England, Amazon is the new coal mine
The mines have closed, and a new industry has come to town… Read more »
Pearson to sell the Financial Times?
Pearson may start the process before the January departure of CEO of sixteen years’ standing Marjorie Scardino… Read more »
Why don’t serious novelists write about finance?
Writing in the Financial Times, John Lanchester—the author of the novel Capital—asks why it is that so few novelists and poets tackle banking and finance: You can assemble an entire… 10 / Read more »