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An activist hedge fund is reportedly proposing a shake-up
to Hachette's parent company, the Lagardère Group, arguing its
supervisory board is not sufficiently "independent"
to hold the management’s strategy to account.
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Springer Nature, which places a strong emphasis on its
Open Access and Open Research publishing, has been forced to defend its
position after researchers in the Artificial Intelligence field vowed
to boycott a new journal which is not being published OA.
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Michael Joseph has snapped up the debut novel from
"The Killing" creator Søren Sveistrup following a
nine-publisher auction.
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Malala shortlisted for Little Rebels Award
The debut picture book by campaigner Malala Yousafzai is one of eight
titles in the running for this year’s Little Rebels Award, which
promotes children’s books that celebrate social justice.
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Profile Books has promoted sales and marketing director
Diana Broccardo to commercial director.
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Books by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho are being developed
for a TV drama series, the first TV adaptation of his work.
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Dr Magdalena Skipper, currently editor-in-chief at Nature Communications,
has been given the editor-in-chief role at flagship journal Nature, becoming
its first woman editor.
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HarperFiction is releasing its first podcast today,
featuring one of its key debuts for this year The Colour of Bee Larkham’s
Murder by Sarah J Harris.
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John Murray is publishing Michael Hughes'
"vivid, funny and brutal" reimagining of Homer's Iliad, set at
the end of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the mid-1990s.
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Independent publishing and arts PR agency Midas PR has
appointed Tory Lyne Pirkis as a director following 10 years at the
company.
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Bookouture has signed two four-book contracts with Kindle
bestsellers Shalini Boland and Carol Wyer.
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Amazon is to create a new fulfilment centre in South West
Sydney to bolster its expansion into Australia.
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