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Higher Ed Sales Boost McGraw Hill’s Profits for the Year
On Thursday, McGraw Hill released results for their fourth quarter and full year ended March 31. Sales fell 2 percent in the quarter to $464 million, down $9.5 million, “reflecting a smaller K‑12 market opportunity,” and partially offset by gains in the Higher Education segment. Adjusted EBITDA was just under flat at $131 million. In the Higher Education segment, sales were $258 million, up 2 percent. K–12 sales fell 10 percent to $126 million. Global Professional sales were $38.9 million (down 1 percent) while International sales fell 5 percent to $40.8 million. For the year, sales were flat at $2.1 […]
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Court Divides Authors’ Suit Against Six AI Companies
A group of authors cannot include six AI companies in one lawsuit for copyright infringement, a judge ordered. Plaintiffs John Carreyrou, Lisa Barretta, Philip Shishkin, Jane Adams, Matthew Sacks, and Michael Kochin, must sue Anthropic, Google, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and NVIDIA as individual defendants—as those companies requested. Judge P. Casey Pitts in the Northern District of California severed the suit, noting that there was not enough commonality or evidence of a conspiracy between the tech companies to warrant joining them into one action. “Each defendant trained on a mixture of different data repositories at different times between 2020 and 2024,” the […]
New Books Publishing June 9
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Dave Eggers, James Ellroy, Lisa See, Brynne Weaver, Tia Williams, Andrew Sean Greer, and Caroline Kepnes, while nonfiction includes work by Deb Haaland, Gail Godwin, and Laverne Cox. 38 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-9 20 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-9 Also publishing this week is Caitlin Mullen‘s HEATHER, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Spring/Summer anthology. We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out June‘s 145 fiction releases, […]