A particularly intriguing bench ruling will mean that in order to sue the fired executive, the bookseller must pay a substantial portion of his legal fees

The democratization of ideas is a really wonderful thing. You have more people from more diverse points of view contributing to the world’s body of knowledge. But of course – and all publishers recognize this – it also creates a huge problem for the consumer of ideas.

In 2013, Cengage entered into Chapter 11, and by 2014, they’d emerged with US$4 billion less debt, and a significant chunk of new investment. Cengage CEO Michael Hansen [who will lead the combined business] used his bankruptcy as more than a way to jettison debt—he radically changed Cengage’s entire business, says PW’s Andrew Albanese.

ISIS has been driven out, and the Mosul university library has re-opened. Iraqis, with volunteers from Europe and North America, have begun to restore the devastated book collection.

As a federal government report, the Mueller Report is in the public domain. Anyone can print and sell their own edition of the report.

Getting the elderly animals’ pictures meant getting to know them at ground level.

In France, the Hunchback’s story became a bestseller overnight; in the U.S., Amazon ran out of stock on print editions.

The benefit will be to develop more targeted drugs more quickly to bring more benefits to patients.

This year, STM Tech Trends goes on tour with The Collaborators, featuring their chart-topping hit, “The Open Science Song.”

The year’s top 10 most “challenged” books – novels and other works threatened with censorship or banning – turns out to include eleven titles.