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Industry Stocks Dipped in First Half of 2018
Neither Barnes & Noble nor the spun-off Barnes & Noble Education have done terribly well in 2018. (Amazon, however, is doing just fine.)
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Inside PRH Company Week 2018
Penguin Random House hosted its second annual Company Week last month, from June 18-22, holding 65 events including talks, panels, workshops, and other activities for its employees.
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Witherspoon Picks 'Next Year In Havana' for Book Club
Reese Witherspoon has selected 'Next Year In Havana' (Berkley), by Chanel Cleeton, as her July book club pick.
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SP Books Finds Niche with Reproductions of Classic Manuscripts
After publishing more than 20 volumes in France featuring the reproductions of original manuscripts by renowned authors, Paris-based SP Books has begun selling the limited edition books in the U.S.
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Publishing Mentorship Program Focuses on Representation
The Representation Matters Mentorship Program, launched by two editors at Penguin Young Readers, is working to diversify the publishing industry.
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Taking a Look At Latinx in Publishing
The two-year-old group looks to build ties within the publishing industry and to promote authors.
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S&S Launches New Book Club Initiative
"Book Club Favorites," a new direct-to-consumer program, is intended to promote titles from imprints across the company deemed of particular interest to book clubs.
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MIT Press Launches Knowledge Futures Group
MIT Press has created the Knowledge Futures Group, a joint initiative between the press and the MIT Media Lab. The group is intended to spearhead collaborative technology projects that will allow for easier and more widespread publishing and dissemination of digital scholarly and academic works.
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Picador and TED-Ed Team for Book Promotions
Macmillan’s literary trade paperback imprint has teamed up with the educational video unit of the renowned ideas conference to create a book recommendation program pairing each of TED-Ed’s educational animated shorts with an appropriate book.
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Oceanview Publishing Founders Patricia and Robert Gussin Receive Thriller Legends Award
The prestigious award from International Thriller Writers acknowledges the Gussins' lasting impact on the thriller genre as advocates and editors at Oceanview. (Sponsored)
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Sharing Stories Wherever Readers Are: Chicken Soup for the Soul in 2018
The beloved brand has been reimagined as a multiplatform media juggernaut with the classic real-life story at its core. (Sponsored)
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'NYRB' Plummets, 'Paris Review' Creeps Upward On 2017 VIDA Count
According to the annual VIDA Count, which analyzes gender parity at literary magazines, only 23.3% of pieces published in the 'New York Review of Books' last year were written by women, while representation at the 'Paris Review' crept up by 8 percentage points in the year.
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The Old and New Blend At HMH Trade Division
After two years, Ellen Archer has put her stamp on the group.
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New 'Lit Hub' Project Aims To Make Critics Vital Again
With Book Marks, the 'Literary Hub' vertical and newly-circulated book reviewing widget, Morgan Entrekin, Andy Hunter, and company make a push to restore the vitality of book critics.
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'The President Is Missing' Strikes Gold
The new novel by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson has sold 260,000 total copies after its first week on sale.
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Akashic Books to Launch Grief Imprint
Ann Hood, author of the critically acclaimed 2008 memoir 'Comfort: A Journey Through Grief,' will head Gracie Bell, a new imprint focused on books about grief and loss, which launches this fall.
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Writers Champion Godine’s Re-Launch of Andre Dubus
In the nearly half-century that the Boston-based David R. Godine has been publishing books, no book has ever been relaunched—until now.
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'Boston Review' Poetry Editors Resign over Díaz
Three poetry editors at 'The Boston Review' announced their intent to resign on Tuesday, citing disagreements with the magazine’s executive editors over their decision to retain Junot Díaz as fiction editor.
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NEA Big Read Grants Announced for 2018-2019
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its latest slew of Big Read grants, issuing more than $1 million in the form of 79 grants to organizations to host book-related projects from September 2018-June 2019.
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Judge Denies Author Attempt to Trademark 'Cocky'
In a decision handed down late last week, Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York denied a motion by an author requesting that a preliminary injunction be issued to prevent publication a number of books that include the word “cocky” in the title.
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