User talk:Malmnn

An extended welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 16:21, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

November 2018
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Recorded Books
Please read the source carefully: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/overdrive-to-acquire-rbdigital-from-rbmedia-301082088.html

Overdrive acquired RBDigital. This does not include Recorded Books. As noted in the last paragraph:
 * There will be no change to RBmedia's market-leading publishing businesses which will continue to supply their titles to libraries and direct-to-consumer services worldwide. These brands include Recorded Books

RBMedia is still in business. It still operates as an entity. Recorded Books is still an imprint of RBMedia not Overdrive. -- Green  C  00:27, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

--- "There will be no change to RBmedia's market-leading publishing businesses" ie Recorded Books will still acquire books and publish titles but will no longer handle sales & distribution of their titles. Blackstone Audio will exclusively sell & distribute Recorded Books titles in North America. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malmnn (talk • contribs)


 * Please sign your posts with four tildes like this . Yes, the source says that but you wrote  : "After the closing of the sale of RBMedia to Overdrive's parent company KKR in June of 2020". First of all, why is Overdrive mentioned at all? They had nothing do with the RB/Blackstone deal. Second, RBMedia was sold to KRR in 2018, are you saying this sale closed in 2020? The source says none of that, but even if true, what does it have to do with the deal between Recorded Books (ie. RBMedia) and Blackstone? Please be careful about representing the proper relationships between these corporate entities and do not mention Overdrive in places it is not directly involved. --  Green  C  14:11, 18 September 2020 (UTC)