Trump Budget Calls for Closing the NEA
In what has become an annual rite under the Trump administration, the president’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts. more...2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Award Winners Announced
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard have named the five winners and the two finalists of the 2019 Lukas Prize Project Awards. more...S&S Moves Saga Press to Gallery
In a memo sent to Simon & Schuster employees, Jennifer Bergstrom, senior v-p and publisher of the Gallery Publishing Group, said that effective immediately, the Saga Press imprint, created in 2015, will move from the Children’s Publishing Group to Gallery. more...Teicher to Retire from ABA at Year's End
Oren Teicher, who has led the American Booksellers Association since 2009, has announced that he will retire as CEO of the organization at the end of 2019. more...and more.
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ComicsIn Her First YA Graphic Novel, Lauren Myracle Takes On Catwoman
PW talks with DC v-p Michele Wells about the debut of its DC Books for Young Readers imprints and ‘Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale,’ bestselling YA author Lauren Myracle’s first effort writing a graphic novel.
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Publisher News
S&S Moves Saga Press to Gallery
In a memo sent to Simon & Schuster employees, Jennifer Bergstrom, senior v-p and publisher of the Gallery Publishing Group, said that effective immediately, the Saga Press imprint, created in 2015, will move from the Children’s Publishing Group to Gallery.
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Awards & Prizes
2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Award Winners Announced
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard have named the five winners and the two finalists of the 2019 Lukas Prize Project Awards.
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Bookselling
Atria Pushes Summer Read with Exclusive Indies Promotion
Simon & Schuster imprint Atria is supporting indie bookstores' efforts to pump up pre-orders by offering indies promotional materials, including a custom-made enamel pin to give to customers who pre-order one of its lead summer releases.
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Religion
LifeWay to Close All Stores
Acting president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources Brad Waggoner announced the “difficult” decision to close all 170 bricks-and-mortar stores this year, opting instead for a “greater focus on digital channels.”
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Comics
‘Nobody’s Fool,’ the Story Behind Zippy the Pinhead
Bill Griffith’s new graphic biography 'Nobody’s Fool' tells the life story of Schlitzie, the microcephalic sideshow performer who inspired Griffith’s iconic cartoon character Zippy the Pinhead. Along the way, the book offers a look into the vanished world of circuses and sideshows.
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Religion
Marcelo Gleiser, Physicist, Wins 2019 Templeton Prize
Marcelo Gleiser, theoretical physicist, professor at Dartmouth, and author of five scientific books, has been named the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate.
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Business Deals
Rowman & Littlefield Acquires McBooks Press
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group has added to its list of nautical titles, acquiring McBooks Press of Ithaca, N.Y.
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Obituaries
Obituary: Bob Schmid
Bob Schmid, a longtime Simon & Schuster sales representative, died last month in Baltimore. He was 74.
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Awards & Prizes
Trump Budget Calls for Closing the NEA
In what has become an annual rite under the Trump administration, the president’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts.
