Like many businesses across the retail sector, the publishing industry has been hit by a raft of doom and gloom in the past few weeks.

CNN, The Financial Times and other media companies are setting up shop in Abu Dhabi, an island city that is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The cover of “Goodnight Bush” looks almost exactly like “Goodnight Moon” and uses a similar rhyme scheme. But there the thematic similarities end.

Accounts differ on the timeline of events that led Jane Friedman, the chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, to unexpectedly announce her resignation on Wednesday.

Jane Friedman is the second high-profile publishing executive to leave the top slot in the last month.