Short news items from the world of book publishing:
03/28/2024
Frank Albanese to Oversee Supply Chain Operations at Abrams
In his expanded role, Albanese will lead the company’s production team in addition to his existing oversight of inventory, demand planning, and market analysis.03/28/2024
Santa Fe International Literary Festival Set for May 17–19
Julia Alvarez, Kai Bird, Anne Lamott, Tommy Orange, and Jesmyn Ward are among the authors set to appear at the three-day event.03/27/2024
Poetry Foundation Boycott Lifted by Organizers
The boycott of the Poetry Foundation by more than 2,000 poets, editors, and writers that began last November over the organization's silence on the war in Gaza has been lifted.03/27/2024
Lambda Literary Announces 2024 Lammy Award Finalists
The LGBTQ literary organization has named finalists across 26 categories alongside seven special prizes, including two new ones honoring queer publishing legend Michael Denneny and former 'PW' correspondent Patricia Holt.03/27/2024
Dan Graham Named Publisher of Gemini Children's Books
Graham's appointment is among several announced by the U.K.-based publisher, which has also named Lisa Dyer and Heidi Lowde to senior editorial and production roles, respectively.03/26/2024
The Fallon Book Club Returns—with a March Madness Theme
'The Tonight Show' has relaunched the Fallon Book Club, selecting 16 recently published titles to compete in a March Madness–style bracket.03/26/2024
MacDowell Awarded $600K Mellon Foundation Grant
The non-restricted grant will be distributed over a period of two years. It is MacDowell’s first grant from the Mellon Foundation.03/25/2024
Binc Launches Scholarship for Writer-Booksellers
The $10,000 Susan Kamil Scholarship for Emerging Writers, named for the late Random House publisher who died in 2019, will support employees at book or comic stories who are at work on a full-length manuscript, graphic novel, or comic.03/21/2024
Baker & Taylor, Library Ideas Partner to Distribute Vox Books
Baker & Taylor will handle order fulfillment for Vox Books, which was purchased by Library Ideas in 2017. Vox Books allow readers to listen to pre-uploaded narration as they read along.03/21/2024
BISG Announces 2024 Industry Award Honorees
The Book Industry Study Group will recognize Ingram executive Phil Ollila, author Walter Mosley, and digital retailer Scribd with industry awards at its Annual Meeting in New York on April 12.03/21/2024
Ajibola Tolase Wins 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Tolase will receive $1,000 and publication of his poetry manuscript, '2,000 Blacks,' by the University of Pittsburgh Press in fall 2024.03/21/2024
Doubleday to Publish New Nonfiction from John Grisham
Doubleday will publish John Grisham’s new nonfiction book, 'Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions,' written with Jim McCloskey, on October 8.03/20/2024
Estimates Value LLM Market at $36.1 Billion by 2030
A new report by MarketsandMarkets predicts rapid growth for the market for large language models, currently valued at $6.4 billion, estimating that it could reach $36.1 billion by 2030.03/20/2024
Pierre Leroy Steps Down at Lagardère Group
Leroy, who was the head of Hachette Livre from 2021 to 2023 and is now Lagardère's deputy chief executive, will transition into an advisory role.03/20/2024
PR Vet Lena Little Launches Eponymous Firm
The 17-year veteran of such houses as Knopf and Little, Brown has launched Lena K Little Public Relations, an independent public relations firm.03/20/2024
Jenn Jensen and Eva Avery Launch Copilot Publishing
Both alums of HarperCollins, Chronicle, and Wonderwell, Jensen and Avery have partnered to form a new freelance editorial and marketing agency.03/20/2024
Craig Popelars Joins Milkweed as V-p of Sales and Marketing
The former Tin House publisher has joined the Minneapolis-based indie press Milkweed Editions in the newly created role of v-p of sales and marketing.03/20/2024
S&S to Distribute Rising Action
Simon & Schuster has entered into a distribution agreement with Rising Action Publishing, the independent Canadian publisher founded in 2020 by Tina Beier and Alexandria Brown.03/19/2024
CCIC Releases Report on U.K. Comics Biz
The Comics Cultural Impact Collective has published a new report on the state of comics in the U.K., which found resources hard to secure despite the country's comics scene's "healthy and useful network of self-organized grassroots support."03/19/2024
Image Brings Hit Series Saga into 6x9 Format
Image Comics will republish the award-winning, bestselling Saga series, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, in new 6x9 paperback editions in September.03/19/2024
St. Martin's Press to Publish Mary L. Trump's Memoir
'Who Could Ever Love You,' the follow-up to her bestselling book 'Too Much and Never Enough' which chronicled the life of her uncle, Donald Trump, is slated for September.03/19/2024
National Poetry Series to Host St. Louis Fundraiser
Michael Cunningham, Imani Perry, Maggie Smith, and Natasha Trethewey, plus local student poet Shangri-La Hou, will lead a daylong celebration of poetry and language in St. Louis on April 15, with proceeds benefitting the National Poetry Series.03/19/2024
Denis Kitchen Takes Comics Collection to Auction
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund founder and Kitchen Sink Press namesake Dennis Kitchen is putting more than 275 works of original comics art up for auction, including works by R. Crumb, Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, and more.03/19/2024
Amor Towles Named Binc Ambassador
The bestselling author of 'Rules of Civility,' 'A Gentleman in Moscow,' and 'The Lincoln Highway' succeeds Ann Patchett, the inaugural ambassador for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation.03/19/2024
BookBuzz Search Engine Deliberately Excludes Amazon
BookBuzz.org, a new search engine for English-language books for sale online, ranks books by price and deliberately excludes displaying books for sale on Amazon or its subsidiaries from its results.03/18/2024
The 'New Republic' to Host Right to Read Day Event
The April 8 event, held in partnership with the American Federation of Teachers, Alfred A. Knopf, the ALA, the Books & Books Literary Foundation, Macmillan, and PEN America, will celebrate freedom to read advocates and authors of banned books.03/18/2024
S&S Announces Spring 2024 AuthorFest Lineup
TJ Alexander, Kaliane Bradley, Jackie Lau, Christina Hobbs, and Lauren Billings will be in conversation for this year's event, hosted by Simon & Schuster. The publisher is also offering expanded resources for literary festival organizers.03/15/2024
VeVe Launches Comics Platform, Starting with Marvel Collection
The New Zealand–based licensed digital collectible company has launched a new platform, VeVe Comics, which will grant users "non-subscription access to premium, licensed digital comic books."03/15/2024
ABA, Others Demand That Small Business Administration 'Dump Amazon'
The American Booksellers Association and Small Business Rising are calling on the Small Business Administration to "Dump Amazon" as a sponsor of National Small Business Week, which runs April 28–May 4 this year.03/15/2024
B&N Workers on Upper West Side Vote to Join RWDSU
Workers at the Barnes & Noble 82nd Street store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan have voted to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, with 85% of eligible workers voting in favor of joining.03/15/2024
NAACP Inks Four-Book Deal with Amistad
Starting next fall, Amistad will publish two new books as well as new editions of two previously published books.03/14/2024
Patrick Nielsen Hayden to Become Editor-at-Large for TPG
Nielsen Hayden has been with Tor Publishing Group for 35 years and most recently served as v-p, associate publisher, and editor-in-chief.03/13/2024
Abrams to Distribute Red Comet
Abrams will handle sales and distribution for Brooklyn-based children's book publisher Red Comet Press beginning with the fall 2024 season.03/13/2024
2024 National Book Awards Submission Open, Judges Announced
The National Book Foundation is accepting submissions for the 75th National Book Awards through May 15. This year's awards judges have also been announced, and include Lauren Groff, Leah Johnson, and Jhumpa Lahiri.03/13/2024
Jhanteigh Kupihea Takes the Helm at Quirk
Kupihea has been promoted to president and publisher at Philadelphia-based indie publisher Quirk Books as founder David Borgenicht moves into the role of chairman. Nicole De Jackmo has been promoted to executive v-p and deputy publisher.03/13/2024
Chronicle Books Realigns Publishing Groups
On March 12, Chronicle Books announced a realignment of its publishing groups, with Christina Amini appointed publisher of gift and Lynn Grady to oversee Chronicle's entertainment publishing group.03/13/2024
Black Lawrence Partners with Fresno State on Poetry Prize
Black Lawrence Press will now publish the winners of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, administered by Fresno State in northern California. This year's winner is William Archila's collection 'S is For.'03/12/2024
Penguin Press to Publish Memoir by Al Pacino This Fall
World rights to 'Sonny Boy,' one of the buzziest books at the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair, were acquired by Scott Moyers in a rumored $5 million deal. The memoir is slated to publish on October 8.03/12/2024
U.K. Comics Festival Launches International Rights Market
The new venture, held under the auspices of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, will "enable new and established British publishers to negotiate graphic novel translation rights with European counterparts."03/11/2024
OverDrive, Storytel Partner
OverDrive has reached a distribution agreement with the Swedish-based Storytel to offer more than 25,000 audiobook titles produced by Storytel to all libraries and schools in OverDrive’s global network.03/11/2024
2024 International Booker Prize Longlist Announced
Andrey Kurkov's 'The Silver Bone,' translated by Boris Dralyuk, and Jenny Erpenbeck's 'Kairos,' translated by Michael Hofmann, are among the 13 books longlisted for this year's International Booker Prize.03/08/2024
Barrs and Aielli Up at Hachette Books
Hachette has announced that Michael Barrs has been promoted to v-p, associate publisher, and executive director of marketing, while Michelle Aielli has been named v-p, publishing director, and executive director of publicity.03/07/2024
Veteran Rights Agent Ron Bernstein Joins IAG
Bernstein has joined Independent Artists Group as senior v-p of media rights. His clients include Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, and Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket.03/07/2024
Women's Media Group to Honor Marie Dutton Brown, We Need Diverse Books, and More
The Brooklyn Public Library, Marie Dutton Brown, Amber Oliver, We Need Diverse Books, and more will be honored at the Women's Media Group's 50th Anniversary Gala.03/07/2024
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists Announced
The shortlists for the 18th annual Sheikh Zayed Book Award, presented by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, include 24 authors and institutions from 16 countries across seven categories.03/07/2024
collectionHQ Announces New Partner Libraries Program
Baker & Taylor–owned collectionHQ, a leading library collection management solution, has announced a new collaboration with several partner libraries to further develop its DEI Analysis software.03/05/2024
2024 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists Announced
Jamel Brinkley and Alice McDermott are among the five finalists for this year's PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.03/05/2024
Stocke, Thompson, Wise Join PubWest Board of Directors
Todd Stocke of Sourcebooks, Sidney Thompson of IPG, and Lauren Wise of She Writes Press are the newest members of the PubWest board of directors.03/05/2024
SUNY Press Teams with New Books Network on Author-Interview Podcast
Episodes of 'Beyond Pages: A SUNY Press Podcast' are now available via the New Books Network, a consortium of academic author-interview podcast channels.03/05/2024
Macdowell Awards 2024 Spring-Summer Fellowships
MacDowell will welcome 155 artists to its six-week spring and summer residencies this year, including writers Lan Samantha Chang, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Alexandra Kleeman, and Sarah Weinman.News Brief Archive
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