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Walker Books and Candlewick acquired by Trustbridge Global Media

May 13 2020: Walker Books and its global subsidiaries, which include Candlewick Press, have been acquired by Trustbridge Global Media, the global children's content company formed in 2016 by growth equity firm Trustbridge Partners. Prior to the sale, Walker was majority-owned by ...

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S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy dies of a heart attack

May 12 2020: Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster since 2008, died of a heart attack this morning. She was 71.

News of Reidy’s death was delivered to shocked S&S employees by Dennis Eulau, the company's executive v-p of operations and chief financial officer, who ...

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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

May 09 2020: When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965 for fifteen months, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman...

...No one noticed the small craft leaving the harbour that evening. Skies were fair; only a ...

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Michael McClure, famed Beat poet who helped launch the SF Renaissance, dead at 87

May 07 2020: Michael McClure, the young poet recruited to put together the famed Six Gallery readings in 1955 that launched the San Francisco Renaissance and the legend of the Beats, died Monday, May 4, at his home in the Oakland hills. He was 87.

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Colson Whitehead: Black author makes Pulitzer Prize history

May 04 2020: US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice.

The African-American author was honored for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the abuse of black boys at a juvenile reform school in Florida.

Whitehead, ...

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Print unit book sales rose 10% last week

Apr 30 2020: Unit sales of print books are proving to be surprisingly resilient despite the massive disruption to the economy caused by the coronavirus, rising 10% last week compared to the week ended April 18 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Sales were nearly flat with units...

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Federal Appeals Court declares literacy a constitutional right

Apr 24 2020: In a potential landmark ruling, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held this week that access to a basic minimum education “that can plausibly impart literacy” is a fundamental, Constitutionally protected right.

In a 2-1 ruling released on April 23, the court ...

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Indie publishers and booksellers waiting for CARES Act relief

Apr 21 2020: As small businesses around the country await funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES ) Act, indie publishers and booksellers are having mixed experiences trying to secure this financial lifeline. “Some seem to have sailed through the ...

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