A planned merger between Bertelsmann’s Penguin Random House (PRH) and Simon & Schuster has been blocked by the Department of Justice antitrust division as harmful to authors. On November 2, The DOJ filed a civil suit in the U.S. District Court of Columbia to stop...
NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Road Integrated Media (OR/M), the leading marketing company that provides content discovery and delivers digital experiences through its tech-enabled, data-focused platform, announced results through July 2021,...
In-person exhibition on the fairgrounds / Hybrid programme As the leading trade fair for the international publishing and content industry, Frankfurter Buchmesse (20-24 October 2021) is further developing its in-person events and digital offerings. The 73rd edition of...
The Indie Bestseller List Published Wednesday, August 4, 2021 (for the sales week ended Sunday, August 1, 2021). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org....
The Indie Bestseller List Published Wednesday, July 28, 2021 (for the sales week ended Sunday, July 25, 2021). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org....
The Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held September 17-26, 2021 with the theme, "Open a Book, Open the World." The festival, featuring both online and in-person events, is an annual literary conference that brings together best-selling authors and...
MARKHAM, ON, July 9, 2021 – The Word Guild released The 2021 Word Awards Shortlist on Wednesday, honouring the best of Canadian Christian writing. Novelists, columnists, poets and theologians were among the nominees whose names were announced at the live online show....
NEW YORK – WEBWIRE – Monday, July 5, 2021--Scribner will publish Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Jennifer Egan’s new novel The Candy House on April 5, 2022. The Candy House is the long-rumored and hotly anticipated sibling novel to Egan’s...
The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.K.’s competition regulator is investigating Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of rival publisher Simon & Schuster, a deal that would create a behemoth in the book industry. The Competition and Markets Authority...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today (March 12, 20210), the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law is holding a hearing titled "Reviving Competition, Part 2: Saving the Free and Diverse Pres." In advance of the hearing, the National...
