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Behind the Scenes At the Virtual NBAs
Adapting a major literary awards ceremony to cater to an all-virtual audience is no simple task, as the National Book Foundation team learned in 2020. It is, however, possible to get it done well.
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Are Book Biz Diversity Efforts Starting to Kick In?
Publishing employees who weighed in on a new 'PW' survey are hoping new initiatives will yield results.
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2020 in the Book Biz Was a Year Unlike Any Other
The combination of the pandemic and demands for social justice led to widespread changes in publishing in 2020.
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Post Hill Press Creates Jewish Imprint
Post Hill's new Wicked Son imprint focuses on Jewish voices and is headed by Adam Bellow and David S. Bernstein. It will feature history, philosophy and fiction by authors from the U.S., Israel, and Europe.
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Graduate Publishing Program Update, 2020
Colleges are adapting to meet the needs of a changing book business.
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Hugo Setzer of the IPA Tells Publishers to Stick Together
The outgoing president of the International Publishers Association reflects on his two-year tenure at the head of the organization.
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Working from Home Took Hold in 2020
A 'PW' workplace survey found that nearly all responding publishing employees were given the option to work from home this year—and most of those workers are still doing just that.
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PW’s 2020 Person of the Year: The Book Business Worker
The most important people in the book business in 2020 are not the powerhouse agents or the megabestselling authors or the Big Five CEOs. It is the collective of book business workers, often overworked and underpaid, that kept the industry afloat and challenged it to live up to greater standards.
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Xelena González on #DignidadLiteraria and Pushing Publishing to Be Better
This year, authors called out inequality with as much gusto as their colleagues in publishing proper. 'PW' spoke with author Xelena González about her experience with the #DignidadLiteraria movement, what she sees changing in the business, and what she knows still needs to change.
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Spiegel and Grau Launch Indie House
Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau are starting their own publishing company, after seeing their eponymous imprint shuttered by Penguin Random House in a reorganization at the company late last year.
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Jay-Z Brings Roc 101 Imprint to Random House
Jay-Z's entertainment company, Roc Nation, has created an imprint at Random House called Roc Lit 101. The new imprint will be overseen by Chris Jackson, publisher and editor-in-chief of One World, and Roc Nation executive v-p Jana Fleishman.
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Grove Atlantic Raises Entry-Level Pay, Forms Exec Committee
Grove Atlantic has created a six-person executive committee to help CEO Morgan Entrekin run the publisher and increased the entry-level salary to $40,000.
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Knopf Doubleday Restructures Marketing Department
Knopf Doubleday senior v-p and director of integrated marketing strategy Kristin L. Fassler has restructured the group's marketing department in a bid, she said, "to augment the skills of the marketing team and help them reach the widest possible audience of readers."
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Photographs and Memories: Remembering BookExpo, in Pictures
From the first American Book Association convention in 1901 to the first and final virtual BookExpo in 2020, the biggest trade show in the American book business was a central event in each publishing year.
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Will the PRH–S&S Combination Be Too Big?
Executives at Penguin Random House said concerns about the size of the deal are unfounded. The vast majority of their industry colleagues disagree.
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After a Hard Year, Kickstarter Bounces Back
Despite the pandemic and the round of layoffs and buyouts it heralded, Kickstarter is still kicking—and creators across the book business continue to rely on its services.
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PRH Canada Divides Knopf and Random House
Penguin Random House Canada is splitting the Knopf Random House Canada publishing group into two different imprints: Knopf Canada and Random House Canada. Each imprint has new leadership and will operate independently.
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'Unscheduled, Delightful Conversations': Book Biz Shares Memories of BookExpo
Publishing industry professionals shared some of their fondest and funniest memories of BookExpo with 'PW' to give the U.S.'s longtime biggest trade book show a proper sendoff.
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Nonprofit Publishers Seek Help on Giving Tuesday
The first Tuesday after Thanksgiving is a chance for such small presses as Archipelago and Haymarket to ask readers for the financial support that keeps their businesses alive and thriving.
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Sandorf Passage Publishing House Launches
Sandorf Passage, an independent nonprofit publishing house that is a collaboration with Zagreb-based Sandorf, has launched. It first four titles will be published in 2021 and will be distributed by IPG.
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