Ryo Yamaguchi Named Publisher at Copper Canyon Press
Following the retirements of longtime copublishers George Knotek and Joseph Bednarik on May 1, the Port Townsend, Wash.–based poetry press—which turned 50 last year—has tapped its publicist to lead its operations moving forward. more...Book Deals: Week of May 6, 2024
Hachette lands a blockbuster new memoir by Priscilla Presley, Ballantine signs a new book from bestselling British author Eve Chase, and more. more...
ABA Seeks to Add Bookstores to FTC Lawsuit Against Amazon
The American Booksellers Association has filed a motion with the Federal Trade Commission seeking to fix a hole in the FTC’s antitrust complaint against Amazon that many in the industry agree needs correcting: that it did not specifically include what Amazon’s practices have done to book retailing in general and to independent bookstores in particular. more...IBPA Rebrands Annual Book Award, Adds DEI Categories
The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards, which honor titles in 57 categories, will be renamed the IBPA Book Awards, and will celebrate books across seven additional, identity-inclusive categories. IBPA also established a new Jan Nathan Lifetime Achievement Award in memory of its late founder. more...and more.
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Publisher NewsBen Sevier Up at Hachette Book Group as Hachette UK Gets Restructured
To help achieve Hachette's corporate goal of creating a unified English-language publishing structure, CEO David Shelley has promoted Ben Sevier to head the newly-formed Grand Central Publishing Group, combined the U.K. and U.S. distribution businesses under one leader, and divided Hachette UK into three groups.
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Publisher News
Alyssa Awe to Join Macmillan as Exec V-p of Biz Dev, Strategy
Awe will join the publisher in the newly created role on June 3, and will oversee the publisher's strategic initiatives, business development, and central marketing, as well as its audio division and publishers-at-large.
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Obituaries
Writers House Exec Al Araneo Dies at 53
Araneo, who worked at Penguin, Doubleday, and Bookspan before creating the contracts department at Writers House in 2006, was the literary agency's executive v-p and director of business affairs. He died of natural causes on May 4.
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Awards & Prizes
'Night Watch,' 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,' 'King' Among 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Novelist Jayne Anne Phillips, journalist Nathan Thrall, and biographer Jonathan Eig were among the winners of the 108th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism and in Arts and Letters, announced May 6.
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Business Deals
Simon & Schuster Acquires Dutch Publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning
S&S has acquired VBK, the largest Dutch book publishing house, and its subsidiaries and sister companies. The move marks the first major instance of a promised international expansion at S&S since its acquisition by private equity firm KKR last year.
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Publisher News
Endnotes: ‘Cue the Sun!’ by Emily Nussbaum
An inside look at the publication process for the Pulitzer Prize winner’s second book
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Book Deals
Book Deals: Week of May 6, 2024
Hachette lands a blockbuster new memoir by Priscilla Presley, Ballantine signs a new book from bestselling British author Eve Chase, and more.
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Bookselling
This Week’s Bestsellers: May 6, 2024
Emily Henry’s latest contemporary rom-com, ‘Funny Story,’ is the #1 book in the country. Plus novelist Amy Tan goes birding, and ‘The Covenant of Water’ by Abraham Verghese gets a boost from ‘CBS Sunday Morning.’
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Libraries
The Week in Libraries: May 3, 2024
Advocacy efforts for federal library funding shift to the Senate, a librarian has joined the Democratic gubernatorial ticket in Utah, 'Library Journal' has named its 2024 class of Movers & Shakers, and more in this week's library news.
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Publisher News
Mary Beth Thomas Out as HarperCollins Offers Sales Buyouts
Mary Beth Thomas, the v-p and director of independent retail sales at HarperCollins, has left the company, PW can confirm. In addition, HarperCollins is offering a voluntary buyout program for salespeople, according to a person familiar with the matter.
