Feminist journalist Julie Burchill has had her book contract cancelled after her publisher accused her of ‘crossing a line’ by posting ‘Islamophobic’ comments on Twitter. Burchill’s book – Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity killed progressive politics – was due to be released in March but was dropped by Little, Brown after a row with … Read more
GoCompare snapped up in £600m deal: Magazine publisher Future swoops on price comparison website By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 November 2020 | Updated: 00:16 GMT, 26 November 2020 Britain’s biggest magazine publisher has swooped on the price comparison website Go Compare in a £600million takeover. Future, which owns dozens … Read more
Magazine publisher Future agrees deal to buy the owner of price comparison site Go Compare for £594m Insurance mogul and GoCo chair Sir Peter Wood could net £50m from the deal Future also produces FourFourTwo, ProCycling, and Horse & Hound magazines Shares in the Bath-based firm have shot up over twentyfold in the last six … Read more
A Georgia newspaper publisher has revealed how he and his daughter thought they were starring in a new movie about cotillion only to be duped into being part of Borat 2. Will Davis, the publisher of the Monroe County Reporter, said he was contacted in February to be part of a movie scene about a … Read more
JK Rowling’s publisher asked transgender activists to edit court report covering free speech ruling Ian Yule has resigned after his court report was edited by charity Mermaids The 72-year-old’s article was edited at the invitation of Hodder Education He resigned from the editorial board of A-level Law Review magazine By Inderdeep Bains for the Daily … Read more
Education publisher Pearson reveals big drop in sales due to schools and exam centres closing By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 24 July 2020 | Updated: 22:05 BST, 24 July 2020 Education publisher Pearson revealed a big drop in sales after schools and exam centres were closed. Demand for printed textbooks … Read more
Activist and food writer Jack Monroe has launched a withering attack on David Walliams, labelling the comedian’s popular collection of children’s stories racist and ‘fatshaming nonsense.’ But HarperCollins Children’s Books responded to the thread and said that Jack Monroe’s tweets are factually inaccurate because the character she claimed had racial undertones is actually white. In … Read more
Activist and food writer Jack Monroe has launched a withering attack on David Walliams, labelling the comedian’s popular collection of children’s stories racist and ‘fatshaming nonsense.’ But HarperCollins Children’s Books responded to the thread and said that Jack Monroe’s tweets are factually inaccurate because the character she claimed had racial undertones is actually white. In … Read more
Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury warns book sales could plunge by as much as 65% By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 20 May 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 20 May 2020 Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury has warned that book sales could plunge by as much as 65 per cent. Lockdown measures in many … Read more
The publisher of the French study that found hydroxychloroquine could help treat coronavirus patients is now saying the paper ‘did not meet its standards.’ President Donald Trump has hailed the research in tweets and during his daily press conferences as a ‘game changer.’ But in a statement published online, the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) addressed … Read more