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McCluggage Out as CEO of IDWM; Replaced by Howard Jonas
Kerry McCluggage has stepped down as CEO of IDW Media Holdings, the parent company of comics publisher IDW Publishing, and Howard Jonas, IDWM board chairman and a controlling stockholder, has succeeded him as CEO.
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Macmillan Restructures Sales Division
Macmillan has overhauled its sales operations in what executive v-p of sales Jenn Gonzalez said is a move aimed to more closely align the sales division with the needs of Macmillan’s customers and its publishers.
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Scribner in Deal with the 'Post' to Publish the Mueller Report
One day after Skyhorse Publishing announced its plans to publish Robert Mueller's report on the investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 election, Scribner has done the same, and has teamed up with the 'Washington Post' to do so.
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Skyhorse Readies Plans for a Hoped-for Release of the Mueller Report
If the Mueller Report is made public, Skyhorse Publishing hopes to release a trade paperback edition in one to three weeks after receiving the documents.
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NDP Scores with NBA’s New Direction
The National Book Foundation’s new National Book Award for Translated Literature made a real difference for New Directions Publishing, whose book 'The Emissary,' written by Yoko Tawada and translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, won the inaugural prize.
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GalleyMatch Offers A New Dating Service for Publishers and Book Clubs
Authors Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp have launched GalleyMatch, a matchmaking program that gets galleys into the hands of book clubs directly from publishers.
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HMH Trade Forms Audiobook Unit
The newly formed HMH Audio will release its first titles this fall and plans to release 75 titles annually drawn from its adult and young reader lists.
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Lethem Teams with Bill Henderson for Reprint Series
Bill Henderson, founder of the Pushcart Press and the Pushcart Prize, has teamed with novelist Jonathan Lethem to start Lethem’s Legends, a series that will reprint selected out-of-print works.
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Beacon Nabs New Book by Its Fastest-Selling Author
Beacon Press has announced plans to release a new work by Robin DiAngelo, whose 2018 book 'White Fragility' has become the fastest-selling book in the house's history.
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Amazon Scraps HQ2 Plans for LIC
Amazon will no longer build a headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, following grassroots resistance from New Yorkers and adverse reactions from some lawmakers and unions.
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Baseball Hall Swings for the Bookshelves
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., has partnered with Valerie Tomaselli and MTM Publishing "to develop its own books and place them in the publishing marketplace."
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Verso to Debut New Fiction Line in Fall 2019
Verso Books, an independent publisher of works on radical politics, is launching Verso Fiction, a new imprint focused on translated fiction that will release its first two titles in the fall of 2019.
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Callaway Makes Sure You'll Remember Its Books
Remember Madonna’s 'Sex,' the 1992 succès de scandale that shook the publishing world? Or the Miss Spider books, TV series, and app? Both, and more, are the brainchildren of Nicholas Callaway, founder and CEO of Callaway Arts & Entertainment, which turns 40 this year.
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Open Road Finds A New Path
The publisher, pivoting its business strategy, is devoting more resources to promoting e-book editions of backlist titles from other publishers.
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Vivendi Buys Editis
The French media giant adds the second-largest French-language publishing group to its portfolio.
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What Will Happen to Dan Mallory?
William Morrow is standing by Dan Mallory, author of the bestseller 'The Woman in the Window,' after a 'New Yorker' article detailed how he repeatedly lied to colleagues and superiors for years as he rose up the ranks in publishing.
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Vintage Español Is Bringing Basque Noir to the U.S.
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, born in Victoria, Spain, burst onto the crime fiction scene with the publication of "El silencio de la ciudad blanca" (The silence of the white city) in 2016.
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Otto Penzler, Pegasus Books Team to Launch Suspense Imprint
Penzler Publishing and Pegasus Books are partnering to launch Scarlet, a joint publishing venture that will publish works of psychological suspense aimed at female readers.
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HMH Trade in Realignment
An HMH spokesperson said the realignment included "a limited set of position eliminations, as well as the creation of new roles to meet our business goals."
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RH Names Combined Teams in Several Departments
Random House took more steps to streamline its operations since its merger with Crown, naming new combined teams for the public relations and marketing; art; and finance, subsidiary rights, and publishing operations departments.
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