Lawsuit filed to block Penguin Random House’s $2.2bn takeover of Simon & Schuster Penguin Random House's takeover of Simon & Schuster, saying the deal would give Penguin too much control over the publishing market.
Bloomsbury Publishing records highest ever first half sales and profits Bloomsbury Publishing delivered strong results in the first half with year-on-year revenue growth of 29 per cent to £100.7m and profit growth of 225 per cent to £12.9m.
Happy birthday Harry Potter: Young wizard preps for 25th after selling 500m copies JK Rowling said today she is unlikely to don a costume to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her hugely successful Harry Potter fantasy series next year. Instead, she will just have cheese on toast and a glass of champagne, because she looks “embarrassed” when given a prop and asked to pose for a picture. Rowling [...]
Investment professionals must beware of the cyber risks in portfolios May 25, 2021 Internet security blog posts are usually more at home on the inside pages of IT trade publications than on the front pages of international newspapers. The one published by Microsoft Corporate Vice President Tom Burt on 2 March, about the emergence of “state-sponsored threat actor” Hafnium, was a notable exception. A new threat had emerged, [...]
Jordan B Peterson interview: The unlikely conservative superstar March 1, 2021 As Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order is released, we revisit our 2018 interview with the unlikely conservative superstar, discussing the high price of fame, causing offence and that interview with Cathy Newman. ••• Professor Jordan B Peterson’s apartment smells of meat. It’s 8am and his wife, Tammy, is fastidiously slicing a pile of steaks, [...]