From: David Groenewegen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:35:01 +1100

To be fair, Pearson do own 47% of Penguin Random House - they may not
be the majority owner, but I'm assuming they make some money off it
and and have some say in how it is run.

David

David Groenewegen
Director, Research Infrastructure
Monash University Library
VIC 3800
AUSTRALIA
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On 11/02/2015 2:14 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:11:06 -0500
>
> I don't want to defend Pearson, but surely that article in Politico
> could have been fact-checked.  A good place to begin would have been
> by using Pearson's own Financial Times or its half-interest in the
> Economist.  Such an investigation would have revealed that Pearson is
> not the owner of Penguin Random House (that must have come as a shock
> to Bertelsmann) and that the statement of how Pearson really got going
> in the U.S. is simply wrong, as the acquisition of the U.S.'s largest
> and most profitable textbook publisher, Prentice-Hall, was already
> completed.
>
> I am sure there are a bunch of bad guys at Pearson.  But what is
> Politico's defense?
>
> Joe Esposito
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:02 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Bernie Reilly <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:35:16 +0000
>>
>> The in-depth report on the British publishing giant Pearson in today’s
>> Politico (“No profit left behind”)
>>
>> http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/pearson-education-115026.html?hp=r1_4
>>
>> is a timely sequel to a recent New Yorker piece on Jeb Bush’s links to
>> the for-profit education industry.  One Pearson executive recently
>> claimed that Pearson is the largest aggregator of student information.
>>
>> Bernie Reilly
>> CRL