News: academic

Restructuring at Cengage as company reports 9% first-half revenue fall

Cengage has reported revenue of $693m in the six months to end September 2019, a fall of 9.1% from the first-half in the previous financial year... Read more

‘Consistent’ T&F likely to hit 2% growth target for 2019

Parent company Informa has said Taylor & Francis "continues to perform consistently", expressing confidence that it will hit its annual target of 2% underlying growth... Read more

Pearson acquires ed tech company Lumerit Education in $29m deal

Pearson has acquired ed tech company Lumerit Education in a deal worth $29m. Read more

Princeton University Press relaunches website

Princeton University Press (PUP) has unveiled a redesign of its website, the product of an 18-month collaboration between PUP's creative and IT teams and digital product agency Area... Read more

Retirement of Bloomsbury's Jonathan Glasspool announced

Jonathan Glasspool, managing director for Bloomsbury’s non-consumer division, is leaving the company in July 2020 after 20 years with the publisher. Read more

CUP teams with Unbound to crowdfund OA politics book

Cambridge University Press is launching a crowdfunding campaign with Unbound to see if the model can work in publishing an academic title Open Access.... Read more

School of Advanced Study to launch University of London Press

The School of Advanced Study (SAS) at the University of London is set to revive the old Athlone Press with the launch of a new academic... Read more

Libraries Connected launches programme for BBC Novels That Shaped Our World festival

Libraries Connected has launched a programme of activities and partnerships as part of the BBC’s The Novels That Shaped Our World festival. Read more

FutureBook Live to explore the future of textbooks, OA strategies, and learning

Pearson’s chief strategy officer Jonathan Chocqueel-Mangan will give insights into the publisher’s new digital-first textbook policy at FutureBook Live 2019, The Bookseller’s publishing conference.... Read more

Princeton University Press acquires Wild Nature's list

Princeton University Press has acquired the list of UK-based natural history publisher Wild Nature Press. Read more

Digital focus for Libraries Week as Bobby Seagull publishes manifesto

Libraries Week kicks off today with a focus on what the nation’s libraries are doing with digital technology. Read more

Guille-Marrett joins indie education publisher

Emily Guille-Marrett has been appointed head of English publishing and training at independent education publisher, Maths - No Problem!, to build a new literacy business. ... Read more

'Weaker' Pearson US courseware tumbles 10% but revenues set to stabilise

In a third quarter trading update, Pearson has reported "weaker than expected" performance in its US higher education courseware business, with revenue down around 10%, but... Read more