AmerisourceBergen Corporation and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. announced strategic agreements under which AmerisourceBergen will acquire the majority of Walgreens Boots Alliance’s Alliance Healthcare businesses for approximately $6.5 billion, comprised of $6.275 billion in cash and 2 million shares of AmerisourceBergen common stock. AmerisourceBergen’s acquisition of Alliance Healthcare will provide even stronger support for pharmacies and pharmacists across the globe and integrated solutions for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Walgreens Boots Alliance will be able to increase its focus on expanding its core retail pharmacy businesses, bringing even greater healthcare offerings to patients and customers and further accelerating its progress on its clear set of strategic priorities.

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced the four Area of Excellence winners of its annual PROSE Awards, recognizing outstanding scholarly publications in four categories: Biological & Life Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, and Social Sciences. AAP has awarded the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award —the top honor of the PROSE Awards —to University of California Press for Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border by Ieva Jusionyte. “We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the University of California Press, Elsevier Inc., and Princeton University Press, whose exceptional entries demonstrate groundbreaking scholarship and a dedication to publishing excellence,” commented Syreeta Swann, Chief Operating Officer at AAP. “We also extend a thank you to our esteemed panel of judges, who year-after-year express unwavering commitment to evaluating submissions with care and expertise, as well as all entrants who continue to advance the scholarly publishing community.”

New figures published by YouGov Profiles show that UK and US magazine audiences still prefer reading their favourite publications in print. Out of the total 166,000 people polled (111,000 in the UK, 55,000 in the US), only 18% of UK respondents said that they got more enjoyment from reading magazines online vs print, and only 29% in the US. These figures contrast starkly with news consumption habits, where the preference is now for reading online. In the UK, 54% said that they prefer to consume news content online versus in newspapers, with that figure rising to 60% in the US.