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Books In Spanish News Roundup: June 2017
Nicolás Kanellos takes home the Tejano Association for Historical Preservation Award, HCCP expands its Spanish Bible publishing, and more.
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Indie House Rides the Pulitzer Wave
Seattle-based poetry publisher Wave Books is seeing a surge of interest after one of its titles, 'Olio' by Tyehimba Jess, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry this year.
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Sales Are Up In Q1
Sales at HMH, S&S, Lagardère, and HarperCollins are up in the first quarter compared to a year ago.
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Educational Publishing Execs at HMH, Cengage Leaving
As educational publishers continue to deal with dramatic changes in the college and school markets, two high-placed executives at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Cengage will leave their roles later this year.
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Arcadia and History Press Acquire Palmetto, Launch Vertel
Arcadia Publishing and The History Press, publishers of books on local and regional history and interests, have acquired Palmetto Publishing Group and launched a new "hybrid" imprint, Vertel.
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Publisher Jason Pinter Goes DIY Route for His New Novel
The Polis Books publisherhas opted to self-publish his new novel, a prescient tale about a businessman-turned-President with a secret past, keeping the title entirely separate from his house's list.
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Harlequin Closing Five Lines
The publisher said it is ending five of its mass market original series due to a shift in the “retail landscape and readership preferences” in the series market.
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Dover Publications Launches Ixia Press
The Long Island–based publisher will launch its first new imprint in ten years, Ixia Press, this fall. The imprint is Dover's first move into original frontlist books outside of the graphic novels space.
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Spotlight on Minotaur Signature Editions
In September, Minotaur will launch Minotaur Signature Editions, a line of classic Minotaur mysteries and thrillers by bestselling authors, as well as U.S. debuts from overseas sensations, all priced at $9.99 (Sponsored)
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Bill Clinton, James Patterson Team Up for Novel
'The President Is Missing,' slated for June 2018, was sold in a joint deal to Knopf and Little, Brown.
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Pearson Plans More Cuts, May Sell School Group
Pearson said it has plans to further reduce costs by $300 million, and it is also reviewing its strategic options for the K-12 courseware business.
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Teaching Writing At the Writers Studio
The non-MFA writing school, run by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Schultz, turns 30 this year, and marks the milestone with a new anthology.
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LSU: Elsevier Is Blocking Campus IP Addresses, Dodging Lawsuit
LSU has filed a lawsuit against Elsevier, claiming the publisher is wrongly blocking students in its veterinary school from accessing the library’s Elsevier subscriptions. Elsevier officials, meanwhile, are characterizing the contract dispute as a negotiation, and say they hope to settle it commercially.
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Proposed Spending Bill Would Up NEA, NEH Budgets
As part of an agreement to avoid a government shutdown, the new funding deal would add about $2 million to the budgets at both agencies through September 2017.
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New Tor Imprint to Focus on Experimental Genre Publishing
Tor Labs will launch this summer with a 14-episode podcast called 'Steal the Stars' about two government employees guarding a crashed UFO.
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HarperCollins Launches Literacy Campaign #WhyIRead
The social media and charity initiative is timed to the publisher's 200th anniversary. It aims to stress the importance of literacy, and will donate $200,000 to literacy-related charities.
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Waterhouse Press Prepares for Misadventures
The fledgling press, still not even five years old, prepares to launch a new series it hopes will prove to be as successful as the two that came before.
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What's New for Books In Spanish
Ray Loriga wins the Premio Alfaguara literary award, Barcelona's Ediciones B adjusts to Penguin Random House rule, and more.
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Women Rule in Indie Publishing
Mainstream publishing, despite its heavily female workforce, has serious gender pay gap issues—but at independent houses, it's a woman's woman's woman's world.
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New Spanish Language Imprint Launches at Quarto Group
Quarto Iberoamericana will be overseen with Quarto Group's longtime partner, the Argentina-based Catapulta Editores. It will publish 20 books a year, starting in fall 2017.
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