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Australian Antitrust Commission Has Some Concerns About Cengage McGraw-Hill Merger

December 12, 2019
By Sara Grace

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) released a 17-page statement of issues regarding the planned merger of Cengage and McGraw-Hill, the result of a review begun in September. The report outlines two primary “preliminary concerns”: First, that the merger will result in “higher prices, reduced quality or a more limited product range for students…

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People, Etc.

November 26, 2019
By Erin Somers

At Trident Media Group, Martha Wydysh and Sulamita Garbuz have both been promoted to associate agents. Nora Rawn joins as foreign rights agent. She was most recently senior editor for Lonely Planet. The late Monika Schoeller, longtime publisher of S. Fischer Verlag and daughter of publisher Georg von Holtzbrinck, was remembered at a service in…

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Briefs

November 25, 2019
By Erin Somers

Ailah Ahmed has been promoted to publishing director at Little Brown UK. Picks Way to go, GMA! After announcing their first two Cover to Cover Book Club picks in the middle of the month, the program is on it for December — with an early announcement that Tomi Adeyemi‘s Children of Virtue and Vengeance is…

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Former California Barnes & Noble Bookseller Sues for Age Discrimination, Seeking Class Action Status

November 22, 2019
By Michael Cader

Longtime Barnes & Noble employee Barbara Tavres, 59, filed suit against the bookseller in the US District Court in Northern California, seeking class action status and alleging age discrimination. After working for B&N in community relations since 2006, most recently at a bookstore in Emeryville, CA — during a career of positive performance reviews that…

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Anonymous Whistleblower Squeals to Congress — On Amazon Antitrust Allegations

November 8, 2019
By Michael Cader

The House Judiciary Committee’s rambling inquiry into Amazon’s business practices may have flushed out a tattle-tale merchant of scale articulating allegations of a valid antitrust accusation against the company. Or at least that is Bloomberg’s read of the 62-document: “It accuses Amazon of ‘tying’ its marketplace and logistics services together, an antitrust violation in which…

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Lawsuit Against Media Men List Creator Hits a Wall

November 8, 2019
By Sara Grace

Stephen Elliott’s lawsuit against Media Men list creator Moira Donegan appears to be on life support, after Magistrate Judge Sanket Bulsara denied his request to order defendant Moira Donegan to unmask the Jane Does who Elliott claims defamed him — info she has already said she doesn’t have. Judge Bulsara said that there was no…

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