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Baker & Taylor Adds 12 New Clients
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services has signed 12 new sales and distribution partner agreements, including five Christian publishers.
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HC Teams with Ingram to Resupply Western States
HarperCollins has teamed with the Ingram Content Group to create a year-round quick reorder program for bookstores in 10 western states.
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Can of Worms Fast Tracks Holocaust Survivor's Memoir
This fall, U.K. publisher Can of Worms is publishing a memoir by an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor that it acquired this past spring at the London Book Fair from hybrid publisher White River Press.
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DOJ Files Suit to Seize Proceeds from Snowden Memoir
The U.S. Justice Department this week filed suit against former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden and his publisher, Macmillan, looking to seize Snowden's proceeds from his new memoir, arguing that the manuscript violates nondisclosure agreements Snowden signed.
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In Filings, Audible Says 'Captions' Copyright Case Should Be Dismissed
In a pair of briefs, Audible argued that Captions is simply a tool for enhancing audiobooks, and rejected what they see as an attempt to “paint Audible and its customers as copyright pirates guilty of ‘classic, willful' copyright infringement.’
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Audible Tells IBPA It Will Press Pause on Full Captions Rollout
In a letter, shared with PW, Audible acknowledged they had received a September 9 IBPA request to exclude 27 IBPA members from the Captions program, and replied that the program would launch on a limited basis only.
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Crunchyroll Takes Majority Stake in Viz Media Europe
The streaming, publishing, and distribution platform offering online global access to anime, manga, and other Asian pop content, has acquired a majority interest in Viz Media Europe Group, a key distributor of manga and anime in Europe.
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Big Pubs Have Mixed First Half of 2019
The first six months of 2019 were something of a mixed bag for trade publishers whose financial results are publicly reported.
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Arcadia Acquires Wildsam
Arcadia Publishing, the hyper-local book publisher, has acquired Wildsam, publisher of the Wildsam Field Guides series.
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Baen Books, RBmedia Partner On Audiobooks
Independent science fiction and fantasy publisher Baen Books has partnered with audiobook company RBmedia for an audiobook program. Under the agreement, the two companies will publish more than 170 audiobooks over the next three years.
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A Publishing Factory Grows in Brooklyn
Affordable rents and the ever-burgeoning Brooklyn literary community have drawn indie presses to the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus.
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AAP Suit Seeks to Block Implementation of Audible Captions
The Association of American Publishers has filed suit in a bid to stop Audible from moving ahead with its plans to implement its Audible Captions program. Under Captions, Audible will transcribe a book’s audio in order to create text that will run along with the audio, something publishers see as copyright infringement.
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With Controversial New Deal, Is Regan Arts Back in Business?
It's been nearly a year and a half since Judith Regan's most recent publishing venture, Regan Arts, faded from view. With a just-announced acquisition—a book by disgraced author/journalist Mark Halperin about President Trump's 2020 election prospects—industry insiders are wondering whether Regan is trying to get back to, and in, business.
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Knopf Goes Back to Print with Morrison
Following the Nobel Laureate's death, her publisher will print 225,000 new copies total of her books to meet increasing demand.
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Romance Book Club Drives Avon Impulse Sales
Olivia Waite's 'The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics' hits a third printing following its selection as the featured title in an annual book club event held by a Los Angeles bookstore.
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Senators Question Educational Publishers’ Data Collection Practices
An August 12 letter, signed by three U.S. senators, raised concerns that the data harvested by digital educational publishers “could pose a serious risk to students, parents, and educational institutions" if "stolen, collected, or sold without their permission.”
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A Woke History of Texas
If the University of Texas Press exists for one reason, it is this: to publish a comprehensive, definitive history of Texas. And Steve Harrigan’s 900-page 'Big Wonderful Thing' just might do the trick.
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NYU Press to Launch Avidly Reads Series
New York University Press is poised to launch Avidly Reads, a new series of nonfiction books whose scholarly authors will address cultural topics from personal perspectives.
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Cengage Faces New Class Action Suit From Authors
A group of textbook authors has filed a class action suit against Cengage, alleging that the company’s recent digital pivot violates their author agreements.
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Little, Brown To Release J.D. Salinger E-books
Little, Brown announced plans to release e-book editions of J.D. Salinger’s four beloved works of fiction, marking the first time his acclaimed books have been available in a digital format.
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