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Oakland Fire Destroys Much of AK Press Warehouse
After a three-alarm blaze, an anarchist publisher is still assessing damages and seeking help.
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One Book Launch...Nine Venues
New York indie press McPherson & Company is organizing nine concurrent author readings throughout the country, on May 23, to promote its forthcoming Father's Day-themed essay collection, 'Every Father’s Daughter.'
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Atria Forms New Spirituality Imprint
Before Zhena Muzyka was named the head of Enliven Books, Atria Books’ newest imprint, she was an Atria author.
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Scholastic, AAP Team Up On Library Funding
A coalition of publishers and education and industry groups has called on the U.S. Congress to support dedicated school library funding.
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HMH Celebrating 100 Years of Best American Short Stories
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is honoring the 100th birthday of its short fiction compilation Best American Short Stories with a special anniversary edition, edited by Lorrie Moore, called '100 Years of The Best American Short Stories.'
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Memphis Publisher Sues Salinger Estate
The Devault-Graves Agency is claiming that the J.D. Salinger Trust is thwarting the publisher's attempts to sell a collection of Salinger short stories abroad.
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Jack White's Publishing Upstart Signs with Consortium
Grammy Award-winning rock musician Jack White's indie publishing effort, Third Man Books, has signed a North American distribution with Consortium, and is looking ahead to releasing three titles in 2015.
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News Briefs: Week of March 16, 2015
Bookstore sales dipped in January and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Modiano’s Nobel Win Is a Boon to David R. Godine
Boston-based indie publisher David R. Godine saw a major sales boost last October when French author Patrick Modiano won the Nobel Prize for Literature, bringing its revenue for the year up 30% over 2013.
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Margaret Atwood to Release New Novel in September
'The Heart Goes Last,' which will be published in the U.S. on September 29, marks the celebrated Canadian author’s first stand-alone novel in 15 years.
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Reader's Digest Condensed Book Series to Get Wider Distribution
The Reader’s Guild has signed a long-term licensing agreement to market and publish Reader’s Digest's Condensed Book series as Reader’s Digest Classic Editions.
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Fast-Growing Independent Publishers, 2015
The 12 independent publishers that made PW’s fast-growing list took a variety of routes to keep sales growing over the last three years.
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AFC+A Launches Publishing Arm
Mandel Vilar Press will publish titles with a Jewish and Latino/Latin American focus.
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Coffee House Launches First Imprint with Emily Books
The Minneapolis literary nonprofit is Brooklyn-based Emily Books to launch the Emily Books imprint. The partnership, according to Coffee House's Chris Fischbach, is paving the way for Emily Books co-founders, Emily Gould and Ruth Curry, to eventually launch their own press.
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Duke Univ. Press Picking Up Abandoned South End Titles
South End Press, Boston-based press that folded last year, has struck a deal to have four of its stranded titles distributed by Duke University Press.
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Unnamed Press Creating Home For Contemporary Authors
Unnamed Press, a new publishing house based in Los Angeles, started out with a completely different name.
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Bringing Denmark's 'Queen of Crime' to the U.S.
In her native country, Sara Blaedel is a household name. But, she's not yet well-known in the U.S. With the help of a few famous literary friends, Blaedel is out to change that.
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News Briefs: Week of Febraury 23, 2015
Shoemaker named president at PGW and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Rosarium Bets on Multicultural Novels and Comics
Publishers kept telling Bill Campbell that his novels weren’t marketable, so he published them himself, found a market, and 18 months ago started Rosarium Publishing to do the same for other writers and comics creators.
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Graywolf Hoping for 'On Immunity' Bump Thanks to Zuckerberg
The small press is hoping Mark Zuckerberg's selection of Eula Biss's short work will lead to a sales bump, and renewed interest, in the title.
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