Almost a year ago to the day, Penguin Random House closed their nearly 500,000 square foot facility in Kirkwood, New York, laying off 286 workers in the process. Coupled with… Read more »

The Financial Times newspaper was sold yesterday to the Japanese financial media group Nikkei. The FT had been owned by Pearson Publishing Group, one of the biggest players in the… Read more »

Whenever a book proves timely, we tend to think of that timeliness as accidental—a matter of circumstance. Earlier this month, when the nation first learned Rachel Dolezal’s name, a number… Read more »

When the news broke that Penguin Random House would be publishing Grey by E.L. James, a sequel/retelling/reboot/deboot? of the Fifty Shades trilogy written from Christian Grey’s POV, it was met by surprise, then massive… Read more »

Last month, we reported at Moby Lives about the smash success that Johanna Basford had with two coloring books she created for adults: Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest. American publishers… Read more »

Since launching in the fall of 2013, the ebook subscription app Oyster has set out to create a f”comprehensive e-reading environment.” The company has grown significantly in its eighteen month… Read more »

Man, Penguin Random House is huge. Did you know it was huge? You might have missed that it controls over half of the publishing industry. Or if you read last… Read more »

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 »

It was the news that launched a thousand identical reactions, hundreds of international headlines, and a race for the wittiest Twitter response. Harper Lee, the 88-year old author of To Kill a… Read more »

“Restructuring” is one of the corporate world’s greatest euphemisms. It usually means that a lot of people are going to get fired in the name of “greater efficiency” (read: greater… Read more »