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Open Road Restructures, Adds New Execs
Open Road has implemented a new organizational structure that it said will help it become a broader digital content company.
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Book Groups Voice Concern About Hong Kong Booksellers
Five book industry organizations issued a statement expressing "extreme concern” about the mysterious disappearance of five employees of a Hong Kong publishing and bookselling company.
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With New Promotion, Sourcebooks Gives Back to Indies
To push its January book 'The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend,' Sourcebooks has launched a reader voting campaign that will see three bookstores win grants up to $3,000.
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Author Solutions Sold to Private Equity Firm
Penguin Random House has sold its Author Solutions division to an affiliate of the Najafi Companies, a private investment firm that at one point owned Bookspan.
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Publishing News Briefs: Week of January 4, 2016
Obituary: Mark Dressler and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Authors Guild Begins Letter-Writing Campaign to Meet with Publishers
As part of its ongoing effort to raise writers’ income, the Authors Guild is sending an open letter to members of the Association of American Publishers.
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The Cultural Encyclopedia That Almost Never Was
Alex Ewen and Jeffrey Wollock were contracted in 1994 to create an encyclopedia of Native American life in the 20th century. After decades of missed deadlines and setbacks, it's finally been published.
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PW's Top Publishing Stories of 2015
Without a face-off between a Big Five publisher and the world’s largest bookseller or a major e-book price-fixing case, 2015 was, by trade standards, a quiet year marked by unexpected new books from two bestsellers: E.L. James and Harper Lee.
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City Lights Publishers Shines On
San Francisco’s City Lights Publishers is wrapping up its 60th year in publishing this month.
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Penguin Random House Highlights 2015 with Video
Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, added a video component to his annual year-end letter to employees this year which served to highlight the bestselling and award-winning titles the company published this year as well as the progress the company has made in the integration of Penguin and Random House.
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News Briefs: Week of December 14, 2015
October bookstore sales up and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Bill Henderson Marks 40 Years of the Pushcart Prize
From its humble beginnings as a project launched by an "about-to-be-fired editor" in 1974, the annual prize for the best in small press publishing has come quite a long way.
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Education Publisher Ditches Amazon, Sales Soar
Since its highly publicized decision to stop selling books through Amazon, sales at EDC have skyrocketed.
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IPG Head Curt Matthews to Retire
Curt Matthews, the founder and CEO of Chicago Review Press, Inc., the parent company of IPG, will retire at the end of this month to be succeeded by his son Joe.
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News Briefs: Week of December 7, 2015
Archer to succeed Gentel at HMH and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Microcosm Publishing Celebrates 20 Years
Two decades after starting in a Portland, Ore., bedroom, Microcosm is having its busiest year yet and riding a wave of expansion.
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Publishing Graduate Programs, 2015: Digital Is the New Normal
A drive to stay current and competitive keeps coursework at graduate publishing programs evolving.
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PW Notables Of the Year: Margot Atwell, Maris Kreizman, and Jamie Tanner
Kickstarter, and crowdfunding in general, continues to transform the way small publishers and self-publishers secure funding for all types of book projects.
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PW Notables Of the Year: Chris Jackson
It’s hard to point to an editor that has had a better run than Spiegel & Grau’s Chris Jackson.



