BOSTON, MASS/April 24, 2013--The 2013 New England Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring the best books of the holiday season. The day festival and awards will be held in January, 2014 at the historic Omni Parker House Hotel in...

NEW YORK (April 22, 2013) - Michael Rapoport, The Wall Street Journal’s accounting reporter since 2010, will be the keynote speaker at the 30th annual Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards Tuesday April 30 in New York. The awards, sponsored by the New York...

New York, NY/April 22, 2013--News Corp. has settled a shareholder lawsuit brought in 2011 stemming from claims against its board related to the out-of-control phone hacking scandal and other matters. The $139 million that News Corp. will receive (from insurance...

New Haven, Conn./April 18, 2013--The curriculum for this year’s Yale Publishing Course (YPC) sessions, Leadership Strategies in Magazine & Digital Publishing / July 14 – 19 and Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing / July 21 – 26, concentrates...

London, England (April 16, 2013) – The acting Board of Directors for Thema (a Board created to support the Thema Global Subject Scheme standard) announced at the London Book Fair today that a pilot draft of the Thema standard has been published. The Thema...

New York, New York – April 15, 2013 – NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that Pinterest is now available on NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK...

New York, New York – April 15, 2013 – NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that Pinterest is now available on NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK...

NEW YORK, April 15—Simon & Schuster, together with The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Library, announced today a one-year pilot program under which the publishing company’s complete catalog of ebooks will be made...

SYRACUSE, NY/April 10, 2013--Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications today announced the finalists in the 2013 Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on...

Gütersloh, April 10, 2013 – Julia Jäkel, CEO of Gruner + Jahr, is joining Bertelsmann’s Group Management Committee (GMC) with immediate effect. Bertelsmann owns Random House in the USA. Thomas Rabe, Bertelsmann's CEO, says: “I am...