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...Authors United, which counts bestselling writers including Malcolm Gladwell, Donna Tartt and Stephen King among its supporters, is soliciting signatures for a letter to William J....
...A group of leading authors, including Donna Tartt, Stephen King and Malcolm Gladwell, has attempted to intervene in the dispute between publisher Hachette and retailing behemoth Amazon....
...The dispute has taken a financial toll on Hachette, whose authors include JK Rowling, Kate Atkinson and Donna Tartt....
...It still has to contend with the world’s largest publisher by sales, Penguin Random House (part-owned by Pearson, owner of the Financial Times)....
...(Pearson holds a 47 per cent stake in the enlarged group). News Corp’s HarperCollins and Hachette, owned by Lagardère, have made sizeable acquisitions....
...He moved to Penguin in 1972 when owner Pearson merged parts of the two companies....
...The same when I think of Givenchy’s designs for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, or Donna Karan’s for Great Expectations in 1998. If it’s done in a meaningful way, it adds to the film.”...
...Both publishers compete in education with Pearson, owner of the Financial Times. Several of the biggest buyouts, however, proved to be good investments....
...The arrival of other providers into the private sector – including Pearson, the education group that also owns the FT – is also changing the landscape....
...Other media stocks moving lower in sympathy included Reuters, down 2 per cent at 451½p, and Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, which was also 2 per cent lower at 781½p....
...Other shares trading ex-dividend included Scottish & Southern Energy, which lost 2.3 per cent to 979½p, and Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, which fell 2.8 per cent to 673½p....
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