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...It then merged it with the German family group Holtzbrinck’s Macmillan Science and Education, which owns the Nature journal, in a 2015 deal that valued the newly-created Springer Nature at more than €5bn...
...She also leads the publisher’s diversity and inclusion efforts, setting a target of 45 per cent women in leadership roles by 2023....
...He urged China scholars to join a boycott of publishers who censor in China....
...Springer Nature, the world’s second-largest academic publisher, is planning to raise €1.2bn in a Frankfurt listing....
...Due to Springer Nature’s governance structure, Holtzbrinck will still wield controlling power over the publisher....
...The company is 53 per cent-owned by German family group Holtzbrinck, with private equity firm BC Partners holding the rest....
...The company is 53 per cent owned by unlisted, family-owned publishing group Holtzbrinck, while private equity group BC Partners holds the remaining 47 per cent....
...Macmillan is owned by Stuttgart-based Holtzbrinck. Bauer owns tons of titles and also many radio stations....
...Holtzbrinck is not putting all of the businesses in Macmillan Science and Education into the new venture....
...Mr Dawson’s first two novels — published by Macmillan over a decade ago — sold fewer than 700 copies....
...Kindle Unlimited did not have titles from the big five publishers – Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster – according to GigaOM, a news website that looked at the...
...Apple and five publishers – Hachette, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, Simon & Schuster and Penguin (the latter at the time wholly owned by Pearson, which also owns the Financial Times) – have abandoned those...
...Excerpted by permission of Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher....
...The price-fixing case initially included five of the world’s six largest publishers: Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan parent company Holtzbrinck, Simon & Schuster and Penguin, which is part-owned by Pearson...
...The “big six” English language publishers – Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House and Simon & Schuster – are subsidiaries of larger companies....
...The publishers named in the lawsuit are: Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, Pearson PLC’s Penguin Group (USA) and Macmillan, a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH....
...The publishers named in the suit are Hachette Book Group, part of Lagardère; HarperCollins, owned by News Corp; Holtzbrinck, owner of Macmillan; Simon & Schuster, a CBS subsidiary; and Penguin, owned by...
...Publishing; Simon & Schuster of CBS; and Holtzbrinck of Germany, which owns Macmillan....
...Mr Sargent said he conspired with nobody when he agreed Macmillan’s groundbreaking deal with Apple’s iBookstore....
...Macmillan and Penguin, which is owned by Pearson, which also owns the Financial Times, did not settle....
...Macmillan and Penguin, a division of Pearson, which also owns the Financial Times, are expected to resist a settlement, both to preserve the agency model and to contest collusion allegations....
...Macmillan, which was founded in 1843 and operates in more than 80 countries, is privately owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, the German media conglomerate, but is headquartered in the UK....
...It was thought to have linked up with Holtzbrinck, its fellow German publisher, but some sources say that it was trying to hook up with the Blackstone....
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