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...

NEW YORK, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) announced today that its first quarter 2013 results will be issued on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 via news release at approximately 7:15 a.m. Eastern Time. The news release will be...

NEW YORK (April 9, 2013)_ The 2013 New York Book Festival will hold a day festival on Saturday, June 22 at the Radisson Martinique on Broadway hotel for its annual event honoring books that deserve greater recognition from the world's publishing capital. Those...

Berlin, March 26, 2013 – Random House parent company Bertelsmann today reported a record year for the publishing house, announcing that the publisher’s worldwide revenue rose 22.5%, to 2.14 billion euros, while operating EBIT skyrocketed 75.6% to 325 million euros....

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2013 Edition 2013 PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES PARIS/March 20, 2013--The 2013 Paris Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual event honoring the best of international publishing. The 2013 Paris Book Festival...