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"Koos Bekker and Bob van Dijk will have a much smaller empire, but will be much richer. They will still have a significant company to run."

It seems a safe bet that neither the US nor Canadian governments will intervene despite the laws and policies on the books and letters from authors’ guilds and publishers’ associations urging some kind of action. There doesn’t seem to be any argument for there being a net benefit to Canada from the merger, nor really any benefit at all. But there is no political payoff to taking a stand on this hill. Then there are the claims being made about the impact from the whole decades-long process of consolidation. Some of these, like the perceived threat of a monoculture born of the unwillingne...

  Article HN ACTION: British Gas finally pipes up with apology for wrongly bombarding Inverness pensioner with cash demands and legal threats By Alasdair Fraser Published: 19:30, 07 March 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Inverness pensioner Ken Whyte has been having long running dispute with British Gas over payment of carbon monoxide gas alarm that he had fitted..Ken Whyte with the letters from British Gas..Picture: Gary Anthony.. A pensioner who was threatened with court action by British Gas over a b...

The Globe and Mail Anna Porter Published February 12, 2021 Why should anybody care when publishing house Penguin Random House swallows competitor Simon & Schuster? Back last November when Penguin Random House (PRH) announced its successful bid to buy Simon & Schuster, there was a flurry of comment in the United States. The New York Times protested that the new, enlarged company would “profoundly reshape the industry, increasingly a winner-take-all business.” The Washington Post declared that the deal would be bad for readers: “As the number of publishers shrinks, authors find themsel...

OAP hounded over gas giant's bill he has proof of paying By Alasdair Fraser Published: 18:30, 29 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Inverness pensioner Ken Whyte is in long-running dispute with British Gas over payment of a carbon monoxide gas alarm that he had fitted. Picture: Gary Anthony. A fed-up pensioner is being bombarded with threatening letters from British Gas – despite promptly paying a bill for boiler parts. Retired civil servant Ken Whyte says the upsetting “harassment” b...