Kirkus Reviews

At the beginning of the year, the 76-year-old publishing-industry magazine Kirkus Reviews was saved from the chopping block. A month later, Kirkus has a new owner: shopping-mall mogul Herbert Simon, who owns the NBA's Indiana Pacers.

Despite Nielsen's announced intention to shut down Kirkus Reviews, the magazine will continue to publish pending a sale to a still-undisclosed buyer, according to an internal memo obtained by DailyFinance.

Reed Business Information's attempts to sell off its magazine division have been repeatedly bungled for two years. Now, unable to find a buyer ready to acquire its 50-plus titles as a package deal, RBI will sell some individually, and others will be shut down.

The best indication that Nielsen Business Media was shutting down newspaper-industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher is that it was a trending topic on Twitter all afternoon Thursday. And the magazine, which had documented the ups and downs of newspaper publishing for more than a century,...

Nielsen Business Media announced on Thursday it will shut down two venerable trade magazines: Editor & Publisher, which has covered the newspaper industry since the turn of the 20th century, and Kirkus Reviews, the 76-year-old trade publication for the book industry. The move completes a...

This feels like a new trend to me, although perhaps it's been going on for a little while. The other day, I received an email from Kirkus Reviews, a well-respected book review magazine that has for its audience, librarians, publishing professionals and perhaps the occasional author very eager to...