Bob's Journal

Naver, Korea's leading internet platform, is acquiring Wattpad for more than $600 million in cash and stock.  Read more

When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, the press coverage was overwhelming. The trusted book publishing media, including Publishers WeeklyInternational news website of book publishing and bookselling including business news, reviews, bestseller lists, commentaries http://www.publishersweekly.com/, Publishing Perspectives, Publishers Lunch, The Bookseller in the U.K. and Quill & Quire in Canada, each did a fine job of monitoring developments within publishing and bookselling.  Read more

Women ‘are routinely overlooked for awards,' says Melinda Gates as her Pivotal Ventures company backs the forthcoming Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

Eight of Barbara Taylor Bradford's novels are to be made into TV dramas after the author secured a major deal with independent film company The Forge.

The deal was brokered by Bradford's media agent, Luke Speed, on behalf of Jonathan Lloyd of the Curtis Brown Group

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From Michael Hansen's perspective, the textbook industry is having a Spotify moment.

The chief executive of Cengage, a leading publisher, brought up the music streaming service on an investor call last month, in reference to a question about the future of physical textbooks.  Read more