Faced with worse-than-expected results in its North American higher education publishing business, Pearson said it is putting its 47% stake in Penguin Random House up for sale. Bertelsmann, which owns a 53% stake in PRH, said it was interested in increasing its stake for the right price. more »
A Post-Election Crop of Instant Trump Books
The surprising victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election has resulted in a boom in books about his rise—a number of which have been crashed and rushed out the door. more »
The 2017 Pen
Literary Awards Finalists: The finalists for PEN America's
awards this year include Teju Cole, Colson Whitehead, Brit Bennett, Yaa Gyasi,
and more.
How the Far
Right is Changing Publishing: Right-wing writers have long been
a lucrative part of the U.S. book market. Will the new era see it grow?
Ivanka Trump's
Book Pushed Back: Citing “momentous changes” in her life, Trump
and her publisher will delay the release of 'Women Who Work' from early March
to early May.
Wole Soyinka
Exits Trump’s America: The first African writer to be awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature has torn up his Green Card in protest.
An Experimental
Library: Dutch designer Irma Boom, one of the world’s
pre-eminent bookmakers, collects “only the books that are experimental.”
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