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...Scholastic, one of the few remaining publicly traded publisher, trades on about 10.5 times ebitda. As with any other gripping yarn, dramatic plot twists should not be ruled out....
...In 1998 Scholastic paid $105,000 to publish Harry Potter in the US, then an unprecedented figure for a children’s author....
...EARNINGS Commercial Mtls Q2 $0.138 ($0.52)Next FY 432.07p (409.70p)Scholastic Q3 -$0.34 (-$0.59)Winnebago Q2 $0.33 ($0.30) EARNINGS Forbes Energy Services Q4 -$0.543 (-$0.19)Rhino Resource Q4 -$0.22 (...
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...executive since it emerged from that previous bankruptcy – divested individual publications to raise money, including the $175m sale of Allrecipes.com to Meredith Corporation last year and Weekly Reader to Scholastic...
...Authors typically sell digital and print rights together, but Ms Rowling’s publishing power is such that she held back her ebook rights from her publishers, Bloomsbury and Scholastic....
...The background role played in Thursday’s announcement by her print publishers, Bloomsbury and Scholastic, also implies that they were not prime movers in the initiative....
...Such is her publishing power that Ms Rowling has been able to hold back e-book rights while arranging print contracts with her publishers, Bloomsbury and Scholastic....
...Scholastic, which holds the US rights to the series, has also been a volatile performer, whose shares have yet to regain the peak they reached in 2002....
...Scholastic had every right to do so. Posting significant digital chunks or whole copies of copyrighted works infringes US copyright law....
...There had been reports in the US media earlier of an injunction obtained by Scholastic, the US publisher, against a number of websites apparently offering scans for download....
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