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DoJ Sues Author of Melania Trump Tell-All
The Department of Justice this week filed suit against Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend of first lady Melania Trump, alleging that she violated a nondisclosure agreement by publishing a tell-all book, 'Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady.'
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NYRB Revisits Two Big Books by William Gaddis
This fall, New York Review Books will publish new editions of two major works by the late postmodernist author William Gaddis, 'JR' and 'The Recognitions.'
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PRH Launches Book the Vote Initiative
Penguin Random House has partnered up with PEN America, Out of Print, and When We All Vote to launch Book the Vote, which the publisher describes as a "nonpartisan initiative to protect free speech and ensure every voter’s right to participate in elections."
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How One Book Biz Insider Is Getting Books to Prisoners
W.W. Norton's Liveright imprint publicity director Peter Miller moonlights as a bookstore owner in Brooklyn—and he's working with Books Through Bars to get books into the hands of the imprisoned.
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The State of Book Producing in 2020
In its 40th year, the American Book Producers Association has turned to virtual events to keep up with members and keep the industry informed.
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Chelsea Green Prepares Naomi Wolf Release
As Chelsea Green prepares to release Naomi Wolf's previously canceled 'Outrages,' it’s the politics of American publishing that worry publisher Margo Baldwin. "You can disagree with me. But you don’t get to tell me what I can publish or not publish," Baldwin said.
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Bringing Michelangelo to the Page
In December, Callaway Arts and Entertainment will publish 'The Sistine Chapel,' an oversize three-volume set with detailed full-scale reproductions of the frescoes in the chapel. Its price tag? $22,000.
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Follett, Baker & Taylor Offer Business Update at Annual Summit
During a recent webinar, executives from Baker & Taylor and parent company Follett described how the school and library market has changed in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Court Rules the DoJ's Case Against Bolton Can Go Forward
A federal judge this week denied former national security adviser John Bolton’s motion to dismiss the government's case against him, finding that the government has presented sufficient evidence to support its claim that Bolton breached his confidentiality agreements by publishing his memoir 'The Room Where It Happened' without proper clearance.
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HMH Reorganization Will Cut 525 Jobs
As Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shifts more of its education publishing business to the creation of digital products, the company said it has implemented a restructuring program that will cut its workforce by 22% in order to save between $95 million to $100 million annually.
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Beacon Press Increases Entry-Level Wages to $44.6K
Beacon Press has increased its entry-level salaries to $44,600 a year, an increase of $9,000, making it the highest baseline wage in publishing to have been publicly announced thus far.
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PW Inks Distribution Deal for Digital Archive
East View Information Services will now distribute the 'Publishers Weekly' Digital Archive. The archive is composed of 7,500 past issues of 'PW' with more than 650,000 fully searchable pages. It includes 435,000 book reviews beginning in the 1940s.
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Will Poetry Push This Publisher Through the Pandemic?
Kansas City, Mo.–based Andrews McMeel Publishing is seeing strong sales despite disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic—and poetry has a whole lot to do with it.
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Macmillan Ups Baseline Salary to $42K
Macmillan Publishers U.S. will raise its entry-level salary to $42,000 a year starting December 27. The raise will apply to all incoming and existing employees.
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At Hearing, Judge Appears Unmoved by New Claims in Bolton Case
At a September 24 teleconference, Judge Royce Lamberth suggested that a former NSC official's claims that Trump officials had abused the prepublication review process for John Bolton's bestselling memoir amounted to a "political diatribe."
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NSC Official Details a Politically Tainted Review Process for Bolton Memoir
In a bombshell letter filed with the court this week, attorneys for the National Security Council official who led the prepublication review of John Bolton’s bestselling memoir 'The Room Where It Happened' confirmed the official's position that the book was cleared of classified information after an intensive process—only to end up blocked by political appointees.
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Triumph Books, Sports Illustrated Partner to Launch Sports Book Series
Sports book publisher Triumph Books is partnering with Authentic Brands Group, owner of the Sports Illustrated brand, to produce a series of frontlist titles based around the venerable sports magazine and its associated properties.
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IDW Names Brustrom to Head New Family Content Division
IDW Media Holdings announced plans to launch a kids, family, and young adult division as part of its IDW Entertainment and IDW Publishing units. The division will operate under the direction of Jeff Brustrom, who has been named its v-p, and will focus primarily on animation.
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Allan Adler to Leave AAP
In a brief announcement this week, the Association of American Publishers announced that longtime executive Allan Adler will leave his position as executive v-p and general counsel of the organization, effective October 15.
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Fassler In, Gillespie and Lamb Up at KDPG
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group has announced a new hire at the publishing group level and a series of promotions across a handful of its imprints, including Kristin Fassler's return to Penguin Random House.
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