Dozens of jobs are at risk as part of a shake up at educational publisher Pearson in Oxford, reports the Oxford Mail. Consultation over 39 redundancies has started in the customer services department, following the sale of Harcourt Education at Jordan Hill to Pearson last year.

Anna Wagstaffe, Oxford branch secretary of the National...

The name Harcourt, which for years gave San Diego a toehold in the book publishing world, will disappear from the region by 30th June, reports the San Diego press. The new owners of locally based Harcourt Trade Publications will close the adult and children's book publishing division here by midyear, laying off 65 workers.

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A fictional approach to the rivalry and interdependence of sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell has been signed by Sharon Blackie at Two Ravens in the UK and Lindsey Smith at Harcourt in the US.

Vanessa and Virginia is written by Woolf expert and St Andrews English professor Susan Sellers. The agent was Jenny Brown at Jenny Brown...

Reed Elsevier is to sell its Harcourt US Schools Education business to the Riverdeep Group, the Irish company that last year bought Houghton Mifflin for $3.4bn. The sum paid is $4bn. The deal further increases Riverdeep's hold over the US education markets, but will also push up the group's debt levels.

Riverdeep said that the...