Simon & Schuster buys Dutch publisher VBK

Simon & Schuster buys Dutch publisher VBK

Simon & Schuster buys Dutch publisher VBK May 07 2024 Simon & Schuster has bought VBK (Veen Bosch & Keuning), the largest publisher of adult and children’s general-interest books in the Netherlands.... Read more »
Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’ | Books

Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’ | Books

Staff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in order to procure books to train the company’s artificial intelligence tools, it has been reported. According to... Read more »
Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’ | Books

Novelist breaks with German publisher amid call for wider cultural boycott over Gaza | Germany

A prize-winning Bosnian and Serbian novelist has cut ties with her German publisher in protest against what she describes as its silence on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as a call for... Read more »
Recovering the ‘Aryan worldview’: the Western Australian book publisher under scrutiny over far-right texts | Far right

Recovering the ‘Aryan worldview’: the Western Australian book publisher under scrutiny over far-right texts | Far right

At least one Australian-based online bookstore is reviewing works from a publisher that describes itself as the “the classics department of the dissident right”, including essay collections edited by an Australian white... Read more »
Publisher drops author for using fake accounts to ‘review-bomb’ peers | Publishing

Publisher drops author for using fake accounts to ‘review-bomb’ peers | Publishing

A writer has been dropped by her agent and publisher after she posted a slew of reviews from fake accounts on book-ranking site Goodreads. Cait Corrain, whose book Crown of Starlight was... Read more »
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