„Ich kann mir schon vorstellen, dass bestimmte Teile von Weltbild, etwa das Digitalgeschäft, auch für uns interessant sein könnten“, sagte Vorstandchef Thomas Schierack der WirtschaftsWoche.

Latest IDC research findings revealed that Russia has overtaken UK and Brazil to emerge as the third largest market for ebooks in the world, behind only the US and China who dominate the top two slots respectively. eBooks have hit a steep popularity curve in Russia in the last few years with the growth rate pegged at 25 percent for the third quarter over the quarter before it.

The social media site Bookish has been acquired by Zola Books, Publishers Weekly reported on Monday. The site went live in 2013 backed by three of the five big publishers: Hachette, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster.

The idea that Larry Page and Sergey Brin somehow owe it to society to invest in journalism — because their company has allegedly siphoned billions of dollars in advertising revenue out of the newspaper industry — is just plain wrong-headed

The idea that Larry Page and Sergey Brin somehow owe it to society to invest in journalism — because their company has allegedly siphoned billions of dollars in advertising revenue out of the newspaper industry — is just plain wrong-headed