More Things Bertelsmann Is Selling

Le Figaro says Bertelsmann is close to selling its French book club operation (including the France Loisirs bookstore chain); Bertelsmann denies it.

Financial Times Deutschland, on the other hand, says Bertelsmann is on the verge of selling the entire direct-to-consumer division (which was the engine of its growth from a small, sleepy Bible publisher to a global media giant).

There's no definitive word, though, on how selling actual books is going...