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Ka pai: the 2022 ReadingRoom literary awards

ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias celebrates the best things in New Zealand writing this year

Newsroom.co.nz

Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle is stepping down

The CEO of Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade publisher, is stepping down

The Independent UK

Pico Iyer’s new book 'The Half Known Life' to be released in January 2023

British-born writer Pico Iyer, is all set to release his new book in January 2023. Titled 'The Half Known Life', the book will be published by Penguin.

The Times of India

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Paramount scraps $2.2bn sale of Simon & Schuster publishing to Penguin

Penguin owner Bertelsmann will not appeal US judge’s ruling that merger would be illegal because it would hit authors’ pay

The Guardian - US

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: Vol 1 review, edited by Patrick McGuinness – tales with a certain ooh la la

Flaubert and Zola rub shoulders with an author of three-line novellas in an eclectic, often steamy collection charting the history of the French short story

The Guardian - UK

Penguins can’t hang onto third-period lead multiple times, fall to Canadiens

MONTREAL — The Penguins earned five of six points on a road trip where they needed to bounce back, but good luck singing the virtues of that. With the lead at several points during the third period Saturday, the Penguins surely wanted point No. 6 to complete a perfect trip.

Tribune News Service

A city that can’t save an institution like Simpson’s is no sort of city at all

A greedy London landlord threatens the centuries-old haunt frequented by Dickens and Thackeray

The Guardian - UK

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US Judge lays out case for blocking publishing giants merger

A federal judge has laid out a data-laden case for why she blocked Penguin Random House’s proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster

The Independent UK

Penguin Refuses to Stop Publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Book

The Wall St. J. (Jeffrey Trachtenberg) wrote on Oct. 31 (but I somehow missed it): The book is being published by the Sentinel imprint of Bertelsmann SE's Penguin Random House. "We remain fully committed to publishing authors who, like Justice Barrett, substantively shape today's most important conversations," said Adrian Zackheim,…

Reason

Authors celebrate antitrust case

CEOs gave bizarre testimony. Stephen King took the stand. Simon & Schuster and Penguin will remain separate

Salon

Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

A federal judge blocked Penguin Random House's proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster, saying that the joining of two of the world's biggest publishers could "lessen competition."

WEKU

Judge blocks Penguin Random House takeover of Simon & Schuster

A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s attempt to swallow its smaller rival, Simon & Schuster, dealing a blow to the world’s largest book publisher’s attempt to become an even bigger giant.

Los Angeles Times

US judge blocks $2.2bn Penguin Random House merger

Justice department argued the melding of the publishing house with Simon & Schuster would harm competition and authors’ pay

The Guardian - US

Why Stephen King turned on his own publisher in a battle over the future of the book industry

Josh Marcus looks into why the horror king — and the Biden administration — has been trying to stop the big-money merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

The Independent UK

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Bangkok Post

WSP diversifies as MVNO business sees the sunset

The WhiteSpace (WSP), a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) under the Penguin brand, is shifting its business to a partnership in an enterprise private network, used car sales and debt collection services in order to ensure long-term revenue streams.

Tribune News Service

Jason Mackey: What another 'kick at the can' means for Penguins, Sidney Crosby's incredible legacy

PITTSBURGH — Colby Armstrong only saw Sidney Crosby once this summer, but the interaction was a memorable one. And telling. It occurred at Brayden Schenn's wedding, as Armstrong and Crosby flew to Banff, Alberta, for the festivities set in the Canadian Rockies.

Tribune News Service

Jason Mackey: Evgeni Malkin has jokes ... and a vision for how the Penguins will find success

PITTSBURGH — As reporters gathered around Evgeni Malkin's dressing room stall at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex for the first time since pandemic restrictions were lifted, the Penguins center was clearly ready. Once he finished untying his skates following a morning workout and scrimmage, Malkin quickly started cracking off jokes.

Daily Mirror

Prince Harry 'torn' between family and Meghan but no going back after new book - expert

Prince Harry has signed a four-book deal worth millions with Penguin Random House, with the first of these a tell-all memoir that was due to go to press later this year

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The Conversation

'The entire industry is based on hunches': is Australian publishing an art, a science or a gamble?

Jason Epstein was the publisher and editor of authors such as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal. In his 2001 book, Book Business, he described how the once-relaxed Random House – where authors frequented the publishing office (and sometimes slept there), and where editors had stronger relationships…

The Independent UK

Why Stephen King turned on his own publisher in a battle over the future of the book industry

Josh Marcus looks into why the horror king—and the Biden administration—are trying to stop the big-money merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

Daily Mirror

Royal family 'kept in the dark' over contents of Prince Harry's tell-all memoir

The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, as well as their lawyers and advisors, have not seen any part of the manuscript and don't even know when the book will be published

The Guardian - UK

Penguin cuts off Meal Prep King cook after misogynistic rant

Cookbook fans ‘heartbroken’ after John Clark’s derogatory outburst on social media

The Guardian - UK

Where Salman Rushdie defied those who would silence him, today too many fear causing offence

The terrible injuries suffered by the great British writer will not extinguish his belief in the critical importance of saying the unsayable

Reason

London Libel Lawsuits Punish Truth Tellers

The U.S. shouldn't import British defamation law, no matter how much Donald Trump would like to.

WEKU

Authors and bookstore owners worry a big publishing merger will affect diversity

The proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster will likely change things for authors and readers - for better or worse

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