every year, and provides seed funding and a four-month training program at its downtown co-working space.

FEBRUARY

AMAZON BUYS 26% IN TATAS’ PUBLISHING HOUSE WESTLAND

Global ecommerce giant Amazon has bought a 26% stake in Westland — a publishing house under Tata Group’s Trent — to support the company’s expansion globally and enter new business formats. Westland is one of the largest and fastest-growing publishing houses in India.

GOOGLE QUIETLY SHUTTERS PLAY FOR EDUCATION

Back in 2013, Google launched Play for Education, a program that made it easier for educators to purchase apps and books and distribute them to their students’ Android tablets. Now, this program is coming to an end.

VIRTUAL REALITY INVITES A NEW ERA OF LEARNING TO HIGHER EDUCATION

SCRIBD, AFTER PIVOTING, ADDS 6,000 MACMILLAN TITLES

Scribd, which recently changed its business model,up growth”.

HACHETTE UK BUYS MOBILE GAME COMPANY NEON PLAY

Hachette has bought mobile games development studios Neon Play in a “substantial” acquisition. Hachette CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson has said the acquisition “could be one of several” for the company in the app space. Neon Play was founded by co-owners Oli Christie and Mark Allen in Cirencester in 2010 and to date has created over 30 games, including Paper Glider, Flick Football and Panic Traffic London, attracting over 60m downloads.

JULY

BLOOMSBURY REVENUES UP 9% LAST QUARTER

Bloomsbury’s total revenues have increased by 9% year-on-year in the three months ended 31st May 2016, driven by the children’s publishing sector within its consumer division, the publisher revealed in a trading update this morning (13th July). Meanwhile, the company anticipates an increase of £500,000 in