Rain, Snow Don’t Dampen Indie Holiday Spirits
Indie booksellers report a solid start to this year’s abbreviated holiday season, with many customers preferring fiction to nonfiction. more...B&N Education to Begin Strategic Review
Barnes & Noble Education's board has approved the hiring of a financial advisor to help the company review its strategic options as it continues to look for ways to keep pace with a rapidly changing market for college materials. more...
CBS, Viacom Merger Completed
The merger of Simon & Schuster parent company CBS with Viacom was completed yesterday afternoon. The new ViacomCBS will have combined sales of about $28 billion. more...Daunt Tweaks B&N for the Holidays
The new B&N CEO has made some merchandising changes but says the real work to refurbish the stores will start in January. more...and more.
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PeopleWitte Promoted at SMPG
George Witte has been promoted to senior v-p and editor-in-chief of the St. Martin's Publishing Group, effective immediately.
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Shows & Events
A Final Farewell to Susan Kamil
On December 5, New York's trade publishing community packed the TimesCenter in Manhattan to hear a who's who of authors remember the highly regarded Random House publisher Susan Kamil, who died suddenly on September 8 at 69.
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Bookselling
'The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse' Named B&N Book of the Year
Barnes & Noble booksellers around the country have voted to name Charlie Mackesy’s illustrated fable 'The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse' Barnes & Noble’s 2019 Book of the Year.
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PW Tip Sheet
PW Picks: Books of the Week, Dec. 8, 2019
This week, we highlight an unusual, bittersweet coming-of-age novel from Saskia Sarginson; the second installment in Suzanne M. Wolfe's An Elizabethan Spy Mystery series, a contemporary romance from Colleen Hoover; an impressive and formally versatile poetry debut from Patrick Johnson, and a whole lot more.
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Bookselling
Rain, Snow Don’t Dampen Indie Holiday Spirits
Indie booksellers report a solid start to this year’s abbreviated holiday season, with many customers preferring fiction to nonfiction.
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Business Deals
CBS, Viacom Merger Completed
The merger of Simon & Schuster parent company CBS with Viacom was completed yesterday afternoon. The new ViacomCBS will have combined sales of about $28 billion.
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Bookselling
'Crawdads,' 'Becoming' Top Amazon 2019 Lists
Led by sales of such of powerhouse titles as Delia Owens's wildly popular novel 'Where the Crawdads Sing' on the fiction list, and Michelle Obama's memoir 'Becoming' for nonfiction, Amazon released lists of the e-tailers top selling books of 2019.
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Bookselling
B&N Education to Begin Strategic Review
Barnes & Noble Education's board has approved the hiring of a financial advisor to help the company review its strategic options as it continues to look for ways to keep pace with a rapidly changing market for college materials.
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Financial Reporting
Q2 Sales, Earnings Up at Wiley
Helped by acquisitions, revenue at John Wiley rose 4% in the second quarter of fiscal 2020 and net income increased 2.1%. The company's academic and professional learning division was a soft spot, with revenue falling 6%.
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Religion
WaterBrook and Multnomah Announces New Publisher, More Promotions
As part of a series of promotions at WaterBrook and Multnomah, Laura Barker has been named executive v-p and publisher of the Penguin Random House imprints, effective immediately. She was previously v-p, editor-in-chief.
