A bitter proxy fight climaxed at Tuesday’s shareholder meeting. In the end, B&N Chairman Len Riggio’s defeat of dissident shareholder Ron Burkle was more fait accompli than 11th-hour surprise. And it left lots of questions unan…
Conservative books sell — a fact that the traditionally liberal publishing industry has learned to embrace. HarperCollins plans to join publishers Simon & Schuster, Penguin, and Random House with a conservative imprint of its …
One of the key innovations Amazon implemented on its way to becoming the nation’s largest online book retailer was to allow its customers to preview snippets of books. Now, a new patent granted to the online giant suggests they…
A strong performance from Suzanne Collins”Hunger Games’ trilogy wasn’t enough to stave off steep revenue declines at book publisher Scholastic.
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After 22 years with education publisher John Wiley & Sons (JW.A) and 13 years as its chief executive officer, William Pesce announced that he will retire on April 30, 2011. He will be replaced next May by Stephen Smith, a veteran of the company and…