Nook Media , the Barnes & Noble subsidiary that handles Nook e-readers and digital content, announced today that education publisher Pearson has invested $.. … Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing…

The two companies announced today that Pearson will invest $89.5 million in cash in Nook Media , the B&N subsidiary that oversees the Nook e-reader, tablets, and digital store. The transaction will give Pearson a 5 percent stake, valued at approximately $1.789 billion, according to Barnes & Noble. ..

Nevertheless, the company said, it was agreeing to settle because of the impending merger of Random House, a division of the German media company Bertelsmann, and Penguin, a division of the English conglomerate Pearson. That deal …. John Ridding, the current chief executive of the newspaper , will run the FT Group, a subsidiary of Pearson that includes the newspaper and half of The Economist magazine.

Inkling, based in San Francisco and backed by Sequoia Capital as well as major textbook publishers like McGraw-Hill and Pearson, recently launched its own e- book publishing platform and sells consumer titles as well as …