Dow Jones and Co., parent company of Wall Street Journal, on Tuesday announced that the reputed journal will start printing ads on its front page. The move is a breakthrough as the Journal has avoided the idea for past 65 years, since it began publishing in 1889....

The music recognition company Gracenote has obtained the licenses to distribute the lyrics of more than one million songs. Gracenote has obtained the rights from companies including BMG Music Publishing.

Reuters - EMI , the world's third largest music company, is seeking private equity backing to mount a bid for Bertelsmann AG's BMG Music Publishing, The Times reported on Monday.

The publishing rights to famous author, John Steinbeck's works have been granted to his son and granddaughter.

The publishing industry did well in 2005, with increases in both revenue and the number of books sold, the Book Industry Study Group, a nonprofit trade association, announced Friday. Although there were less books released in...