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News Corp's HarperCollins Publishers buys Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Consumer-Publishing Arm
29 Mar, 2021
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2021-3-29 5:19:53 AM UTC
I'd imagine that UK and US Tolkien releases would be identical going forward for non mass market editions and will be sold as HarperCollins editions in HMH markets.
Updated with News that sale has gone through
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Divest HMH Books & Media Consumer Publishing Business for $349 Million
Learning technology company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (“HMH” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: HMHC) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to divest HMH Books & Media, its consumer publishing business, to HarperCollins Publishers, a division of News Corp
https://www.hmhco.com/about-us/press-r ... 36&utm_campaign=corporate
Updated with News that sale has gone through
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Divest HMH Books & Media Consumer Publishing Business for $349 Million
Learning technology company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (“HMH” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: HMHC) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to divest HMH Books & Media, its consumer publishing business, to HarperCollins Publishers, a division of News Corp
https://www.hmhco.com/about-us/press-r ... 36&utm_campaign=corporate
Oh, I'm aware of all that. I was simply making a tongue-in-cheek comment that News Corp could use its media outlets to manufacture reactionary outrage against a perceived socio-political slight against Tolkien for the purpose riling up a segment of their base to go and buy up books en masse.
(My in-laws who watch Fox News, for example, had at least five Seuss books in their Amazon cart shortly after the "controversy" dropped–ironically none of the now-OOP books. They weren't the only ones!)
DSE did the right thing (IMHO), and were well within their rights as a private entity to do so. "Cancel culture" is (largely) fallacious invective, but Murdoch loves using it to further narratives and sell things.
I didn't mean to take the topic so far off the rails though, so I'll leave the point here.
What a horrible thought!
(My in-laws who watch Fox News, for example, had at least five Seuss books in their Amazon cart shortly after the "controversy" dropped–ironically none of the now-OOP books. They weren't the only ones!)
DSE did the right thing (IMHO), and were well within their rights as a private entity to do so. "Cancel culture" is (largely) fallacious invective, but Murdoch loves using it to further narratives and sell things.
I didn't mean to take the topic so far off the rails though, so I'll leave the point here.
Mr. Underhill wrote:
Oh brother, I can't wait for the future US releases to say "News Corp" on the base of the spine.
What a horrible thought!
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