As the 2018 Sharjah International Book Fair has its ceremonial opening, the emirate's royal family reaffirms its commitment to literature and a knowledge economy.

 

In a memo from CEO Markus Dohle, Penguin Random House announces majority ownership in Brazil's largest trade publisher, Companhia das Letras.

 

Put together by three former players from UK's Bonnier Publishing, Blake Freeman Johnson Media is to focus mostly on nonfiction.