Publishing
Literature Nobel: Olga Tokarczuk wins 2018 award, Peter Handke gets 2019 Prize
10 Oct 2019
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life,” while Austrian author Peter Handke has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”
Delhi HC dumps AJL’s plaint against eviction in National Herald case
01 Mar 2019
Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi acquired AJL using Congress funds and the property is currently being held as real estate in violation of the lease terms, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy stated in the case filed in 2012
Delhi HC orders Gandhi family-controlled AJL to vacate Herald House
21 Dec 2018
The court noted that the `dominant purpose' of publishing has been 'lost' after the premises changed hands to an entity called Young India, which is owned by Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi
Iran throws open Book Garden, possibly world’s largest library
12 Jul 2017
For those who thought Iran was like some other Islamic countries that discourage literature and the arts, here’s an eye-opener: officials unveiled the Book Garden — possibly the world’s largest library — in a giant academic complex on Wednesday
Pearson sells 22% stake in Penguin Random House to Bertelsmann for $1 bn
11 Jul 2017
Pearson, which in recent years sold some of its best known assets, including the Financial Times and the Economist, said it would now reduce its stake in the world's biggest consumer book publisher
Google funds project for robots to write news stories
08 Jul 2017
Journalists will now have to be on their toes, as Google is funding a project under which a UK news agency will use artificial intelligence to create up to 30,000 automated news stories a month
Hitting the right note with ‘The Write Place’
02 Jun 2016
Kinjal Shah, CEO, Crossword Bookstores talks to Swetha Amit about The Write Place, a new initiative introduced over the last one year to encourage budding authors get themselves published, and other initiatives
Google to work with publishers and Twitter to create new kind of web link and article storage system
12 Sep 2015
Pearson to sell stake in The Economist to Agnelli family for $731 mn
13 Aug 2015
Within three weeks of the sale of its popular Financial Times (FT) business newspaper, British publisher and education major Pearson Plc has sold a significant chunk of the coveted weekly publication The Economist
US print services giant RR Donnelley to split into three
05 Aug 2015
The three companies will focus on financial communications and data services, publishing and retail print services and multichannel communications management
Pearson to sell 50% stake in Economist
27 Jul 2015
Japan's Nikkei buys Financial Times for $1.3 bn from Pearsons
24 Jul 2015
The acquisition of Financial Times is the biggest by the Japanese media group, which had to outbid Germany’s biggest news publisher Axel Springer AG to clinch the deal
Pearson explores sale of Financial Times daily newspaper
21 Jul 2015
Pearson was sounding out possible bidders for the Financial Times and a sale may value the 127 year-old newspaper at £1 billion
'Jai Shri Ram’ greets Scion of Ikshvaku
By By Swetha Amit | 23 Jun 2015
EC opens probe on Amazon’s e-books business
12 Jun 2015
The European Commission’s investigation focuses on Amazon’s contracts with publishers, requiring them to inform Amazon about more favourable terms offered to rivals
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
