Bertelsmann, the German media giant that owns that little publisher Penguin Random House, has decided to grow in the education and digital media markets abroad. The company announced yesterday that it… Read more »

At a moment when the world’s attention is focused on World Cup results, English PEN has launched a campaign to draw attention to other numbers: the number of journalists and… Read more »

Translated into English by Eric M. B. Becker Carlos Drummond de Andrade, often considered the greatest Brazilian poet of the twentieth century, wrote the following piece, which appeared on July… Read more »

So this is an interesting turn of events: according to a new study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the younger readers they polled across nine countries… Read more »

The shares of Brazil’s largest bookstore chain, Saraiva, leapt last Wednesday when rumors surfaced that Amazon was in talks to buy the company. Amazon had already had plans to enter… Read more »

I must confess, I never expected a Reuters report on Amazon’s entry into Brazil to end like this: “‘They are going to face the same kind of problems we always… Read more »

In Brazil, prisoners are being given a pressing incentive to read: time knocked off their sentences. Reuters reports that four federal prisons, which hold some of the country’s most notorious… Read more »