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LONDON and NEW YORK, February 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Palgrave Macmillan is pleased to announce its acquisition of BioSocieties, an interdisciplinary journal for the social studies of life sciences, from the London School of Economics and Political Science. The first journal of its kind, BioSocieties is committed to the scholarly exploration of the crucial social, ethical and policy implications of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine. BioSocieties is...
SEATTLE, Feb. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a consumer-rights law firm today announced that the firm, along with 33 state Attorneys General and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), have reached a proposed settlement with Macmillan over allegations of e-book price-fixing. The settlement resolves claims filed by the DOJ, numerous state governments, and a class-action suit brought by Hagens Berman on behalf of a nationwide class of consumers. The lawsuits...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online And then, there was one. Last April, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) brought a lawsuit against Apple and five book publishers, claiming these companies had conspired together to fix book prices in order to defeat Amazon. Not looking for any trouble, three of these book publishers settled immediately, leaving Macmillan and Penguin left to fight the DOJ alongside Apple. Penguin reached a settlement this past December. Today,...
LONDON, February 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Macmillan Digital Education [http://www.digital-education.com ] has made a significant move into the Brazilian EdTech market with investments in two Brazil-based start-ups targeting the adult education sector - Veduca and Easyaula. These investments bolster Digital Education's local presence as a serious "go-to" investor for EdTech entrepreneurs in the Latin American region. - Veduca [http://www.veduca.com.br ]...
LONDON and NEW YORK, January 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- From today, Palgrave Macmillan will offer authors and their funders the option to publish open access (OA) research across all publication formats. Palgrave Macmillan journal articles, monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications can now be made available with immediate open access upon publication via Palgrave Open. Palgrave Open will publish all OA content under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)...
NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In the new distribution arrangement and joint venture agreement, Macmillan will distribute English language e-books of Entangled's new publications in all domestic and international markets and for all platforms where Macmillan currently does business. With unprecedented growth, in a year Entangled has exploded to twelve imprints with more than 350 authors and thirty titles released per month. In 2012, Entangled published the sixth overall...
NEW YORK, November 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Macmillan adds STEM interactive homework and learning solution to portfolio. Macmillan New Ventures [http://www.macmillannewventures.com ], a technology innovation division of Macmillan Publishers, Ltd., today announced the acquisition of Sapling Learning [https://www.saplinglearning.com ], a leading provider of interactive homework and learning software for the higher education and high school in the areas of science,...
OXFORD, England, November 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Macmillan Dictionaries will no longer appear as physical books. The final copies are rolling off the presses at this very moment, and from next year, Macmillan Dictionary will be available only online. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121105/573290 ) Since its launch in 2009, Macmillan Dictionary Online has seen explosive growth and will now fully replace the print version in a transition that,...
LONDON, October 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Macmillan Digital Education has made its first significant play for e-tutoring in the UK with the acquisition of Maths Doctor - a British award-winning e-learning business that is run by qualified teachers. The deal bolsters Macmillan Digital Education's portfolio of technology-driven educational service providers, serving parents, students and educators. Maths Doctor provides live one-to-one home tutoring via the internet, plus...
NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by Kinsella Media, LLC, notice provider for the State Attorneys General E-book Settlements. The process of notifying consumers about Settlements reached with publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster in an antitrust lawsuit filed by State Attorneys General about the prices of electronic books ("E-books") is underway. The lawsuit claims there was a conspiracy involving these three top...
