Short news items from the world of book publishing:

12/19/2019
Margolin to Receive Rittenhouse Award
12/18/2019
Captions Case Remains in Holding Pattern
12/16/2019
IPG to Distribute TI Inc. Books
Marino In, Falter Up at Hachette
12/13/2019
Student Spending on Textbooks Continues to Decline
12/12/2019
S&S to Distribute Manning Publications
12/11/2019
'Christianity Today' Announces 2020 Book Awards
Abbott to Give PubWest 2020 Keynote
Merger of California Regionals Nears Completion
12/10/2019
Next Dog Man Title Revealed
12/05/2019
Random House to Pub 'The Impeachment Report'
12/04/2019
NACS Opposes Cengage-McGraw Merger
PRH to Donate Up to 300,000 More Books in Obama Family's Name
Lit Hub, Podglomerate Partner on 'Storybound'
Criado Perez Wins 2019 Business Book of the Year Award
12/03/2019
New PRH Ad Campaign Highlights How 'Books Make Us Better'
12/02/2019
First Book Launches 'Give a Million' Campaign
Wingate Prize 2020 Longlist Announced
Sproul-Latimer, Wolf Launch New Agency
Reese Picks 'Conviction' for December Book Club
PRH Brings Back Penguin Hotline for Holiday Season
11/27/2019
Audible’s EVP, Publisher Beth Anderson to Retire
Dark Horse to Publish Zao Dao’s ‘Cuisine Chinoise’ Graphic Novel
11/25/2019
Two Rivers to Distribute David R. Godine
11/22/2019
RBC Taylor Prize to End
11/20/2019
Canadian Book Buyers Double Book Club Membership in 2019
Six Seats Open On IBPA Board
11/18/2019
Consortium to Distribute for Six New Clients
11/15/2019
Scholastic Adds More Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels
2020 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist Announced
Julia Lovell Wins 2019 Cundill History Prize
11/13/2019
Washington Wins Gaines Award
Memorial Service for Toni Morrison Announced
11/12/2019
NTA in Prose Award Winner Announced
Susan Kamil Memorial Announced
11/11/2019
DSC Shortlist Has Three Americans
B&T to Sell, Fulfill for Tachyon
11/09/2019
S&S Offers Relief to California Booksellers
11/08/2019
HSG Literary Renamed Hannigan Getzler Literary
11/06/2019
Cokesbury Acquires Christian Retailer Bibles by the Case
IPG Signs 11 New Distribution Clients
Galassi Retires, Callaway Promoted at Avalon
11/05/2019
Lit Mag Fundraises via Author Postcards
B&N Picks New Jewell for Book Club
Malaviya, Danek Up at PRH
Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2019
11/04/2019
BISG Names New Board Officers
Reese Picks New Moyes for Book Club
Sourcebooks to Deliver ASAP to Indies During Holidays
10/31/2019
B&T, Ampersand Sign Sales Deal
10/30/2019
Aconyte to Produce Novels Based on Marvel Heroes
10/29/2019
Anchor to Partner with Canadian Distributor
Binc Offers Aid to Booksellers Caught in California Wildfires
10/28/2019
New Ferrante Due June 9
10/25/2019
S&S Acquires Memoir by Val Kilmer
Yen Press to Publish the ‘Weathering With You’ Novel
10/24/2019
ALA Graphic Novel Roundtable To Debut Adult Reading List
10/23/2019
Patagonia to Stop Printing Galleys
10/22/2019
Street Noise Books Inks Distribution Deal with Ingram’s Consortium
Two Rivers to Distribute David and Charles
S&S to Distribute Oneworld in North America
10/18/2019
Consortium to Distribute for Six New Clients
‘Upgrade Soul’ to Release New Graphic Novel App, Vinyl Soundtrack
Netflix to Make Animated Series of Jeff Smith’s BONE Graphic Novels
10/17/2019
Saks to Join HC Children's
Cundill History Prize Finalists Announced
Webtoon, Crunchyroll Team To Create New Animated Content
10/16/2019
Aevitas Expands to the U.K.
Sayar Named Kanopy CEO
Eurospan Acquires Transatlantic Publishers Group
Baggaley to Join Bloomsbury as Editor-in-Chief
10/15/2019
RBmedia to Publish Princeton UP Audio
Wharton School's Book Publishing Arm Renamed
CAP to Distribute Notre Dame Press
#EbooksForAll Campaign Fights Library E-book Embargo
10/11/2019
YouTube Launches 'BookTube' Learning Series
Viking to Publish Sue Monk Kidd's Latest Next April
Casemate to Distribute Imperial War Museums
10/10/2019
Singer Reissue to Raise Poverty Awareness
PRHPS to Distribute MIT Press
10/09/2019
Clark Up at Apa Publications
Charkin Joins Trillum Partners
10/08/2019
Book Manufacturers' Institute Launches Book Manufacturing Mastered Conference
10/07/2019
Treisman to Receive 2019 Pease Prize
Dayton Peace Prize Winners Announced
Bloom Moves from Vintage to Knopf
Beat Barblan Named Board Chair of ISBN Agency
Clarkson Potter to Publish Michelle Obama's 'Becoming' Journal
10/04/2019
Lamb Leaves RHCB
10/03/2019
2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant Recipients
Doubleday to Publish Gates Climate Broadside
Tasker Up at ReaderLink
NBF Announces 2019 Literature for Justice Program Titles
CBLDF Survey Reports Growing Use of Comics by Teachers
10/02/2019
HCCP's New Publisher Sells Literary Agency
Goddard Riverside Releases Shortlist for Social Justice Book Prize
Knopf to Publish Jim Carrey
10/01/2019
AAP Prose Awards Submissions Open
09/30/2019
LeVar Burton to Host NBAs
09/27/2019
Woods Memorial to Be Held at Center for Fiction
PRH Audio Releases Whistleblower Complaint
Kobo Writing Life Moves Into Audiobooks
'Paris Review' Partners with Stitcher on Podcast
Dark Horse Plans Deluxe Neil Gaiman Graphic Collection
09/26/2019
Idea Architects Launches New Division
Boom to Publish ‘Happiness Will Follow’ Graphic Memoir
09/25/2019
Paraclete Debuts Five Audiobooks
Wilson, Frazer Join Gakken
Malovany to Retire from Abrams
09/24/2019
Companion Film to 'Know My Name' Released
NBF Announces 5 Under 35 Honorees for 2019
09/23/2019
McEwan to Publish Brexit Novella In October
Hunt Nabs SFC Literary Prize
DC to Publish 'Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child' in December
A Wave Blue World, Diamond Ink Graphic Novel Distribution Deal
09/20/2019
Cundill History Prize Shortlist Announced
09/19/2019
Mountaineers Books, Green Trails Maps Partner Up
Gibbs Smith to Distribute Angel City
Greystone Books to Join Climate Strike
09/17/2019
McKibben to Curate Festival Albertine
Catapult Raises Funds for Immigrant Children
Audible, Great Courses Partner on Audio Line
Fila, Amistad Partner On Book Tie-In Sneakers
Bob Schreck Named CBLDF Deputy Director
09/12/2019
PRH Two-Day Transit Program Is Back
09/11/2019
Green Apple Books Buys Browser Books
09/10/2019
Baker Names New EVPs
Byron Williamson Departs Worthy Publishing
09/09/2019
'Crawdads' Gets a Spanish Translation
Zats, Hane Launch New Agency
09/05/2019
BISG Streams Webinar On Handling Tariffs
2019 American Poets Prize Winners Announced
Follett Appoints Britten Follett to Lead PreK-12 Business
RWA, Entangled Partner on Author Incubator Program
09/04/2019
Stella Adler Studio Expands Into Arts Center
09/03/2019
2019 Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship Submissions Open
08/29/2019
Rushdie, Actors to Read from 'Quichotte' at C4F
Deane Joins Sourcebooks Sales
08/28/2019
Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2019 Shortlist
C4F to Honor Lynn Nesbit, Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale'
08/27/2019
BIGNY to Host Sesame Workshop Retrospective
08/26/2019
Milkweed Fellowship Recipient Named
08/23/2019
Baker & Taylor to Distribute McSweeney’s
Carrera to Lead ProQuest Books Unit
08/22/2019
German Bookseller Named Winner of 2020 Fellowship for Winter Institute
New American Voices Award Announces Shortlist
08/21/2019
Osondu Wins BOA Prize
08/19/2019
Skyhorse, Start Publishing Partner on New True Crime Imprint
Francis Named Director of UPenn Press
08/15/2019
NEH Announces Latest Slate of Humanities Grants
CLMP to Honor Kima Jones, Will Evans
2019 SFC Literary Prize Shortlist Announced
B&N Spotlights Growth in Romance Category
Hachette to Distribute Lonely Planet Titles
08/14/2019
Ingram to Distribute Terra Galleria
Arcadia Acquires Pelican's Assets
IPG to Distribute for 10 New Publishers
New Map Reveals 1,800 Christian Retail Locations
08/13/2019
B&N Names Fall Bookseller Picks
Welbeck Appoints Children's Division Leads
08/12/2019
DeSilva Joins AG Board
Turner, Ambrosi, Gustavsson Up at Campbell
08/09/2019
Harris Takes Helm from Evans at Evan-Moor
08/05/2019
Hodgman Memorial Set for September
08/02/2019
Boom to Publish ‘Big Black,’ A Graphic History of 1971 Attica Prison Riot
PBS to Air ‘American Masters - Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin’ Documentary
08/01/2019
SinC Announces 2019 Crime Fiction Award
Seshadri Named Poetry Editor at 'Paris Review'
07/30/2019
PRH Grupo Editorial Acquires La Campana
NJBA Adds Food Writing Category
Russell Perreault Dies
2018 Willie Morris Award Shortlist Announced
PubWest Adds Online Distribution Course to Pub501
07/26/2019
Titan Acquires Historical Fantasy by Nicole Jarvis
07/24/2019
Workman to Distribute Familius
2020 Neustadt Prize Finalists Announced
07/22/2019
Avon Books Announces Open Submissions
07/17/2019
McKay Joins AAP
07/16/2019
Awesome Reads Debuts Graphic Novel Studio at SDCC 2019
Munsch Named MD of A&CB in U.K.
07/11/2019
2020 International Booker Prize Judges Announced
Casemate to Distribute Mercier
07/10/2019
Cinco Puntos Press Names New President, Adds to Staff
Baker, (in)courage Announce Publishing Partnership
John H. Morrow Jr. Wins 2019 Pritzker Prize
At Shreve Williams, Dewey Steps Down, DeJesu and Shapiro Step In
Harlequin Unveils Mentorship Program
07/09/2019
Hellblazer's John Constantine Enters the Sandman Universe
Dark Horse to Publish ‘Grafity’s Wall’ Graphic Novel
07/08/2019
Velocity Press to Release Inaugural Title In December
Titan Takes Two By Powell
Sea Glass Publishing Acquired by Schiffer
07/02/2019
Welte Up at HC Germany
Wiley Acquires Zyante Inc.
07/01/2019
S&S to Distribute Timbuktu Labs In North America
06/27/2019
Mortons Books, Casemate Agree on Distribution
New President Named at Bearport
06/26/2019
IVP Rebrands, Unveils New Logo
06/22/2019
DC Unveils New Young Reader Graphic Novels at ALA Annual Meeting
06/20/2019
Chronicle Will Distribute Levine Querido
Helsinki Literary Gains a New Stakeholder
S&S to Distribute Ulysses Press
BKBF 2019 Announces Author Lineup
06/19/2019
Soho Agency Appoints New Directors
Lerner Will Distribute Zest Books
New Comics Publisher Ablaze Debuts Charlie Adlard's 'Vampire State Building'
06/18/2019
Torres In at HC México
Boom! To Publish R.L. Stine’s ‘Horror at Happy Landings’ Graphic Novel
Gelman Up at Amazon
06/17/2019
Binc and Macmillan Diversity Scholarship Gets Third Year
06/13/2019
Neufeld, Haspiel Launch Harvey Pekar ‘American Splendor’ Podcast
06/12/2019
'Idaho' Wins 2019 Dublin Literary Award
NEA Announces 2019 Big Read Grants
06/11/2019
Tager, Chang Up at Abrams
S&S to Distribute Mrs Wordsmith
Russell In, Koncsol Up At LBYR
06/10/2019
S&S to Distribute Tanglewood
06/06/2019
Catapult to Publish 'Celestial Bodies' In U.S.
C4F Announces 2019 Emerging Writing Fellows
Marvel, Dreamscape Media Partner to Produce Superhero Audiobooks
Skyhorse to Relaunch Gruber Test Prep Guides
06/04/2019
New Owner for Cloud and Leaf
Wein To Head Avid Reader Editorial
2019 Lambda Award Winners Announced
Berger Up At Scholastic
06/03/2019
Two Rivers Will Newly Distribute Five Publishers
05/31/2019
CLMP Names Firecracker Award Finalists, Lord Nose Award Winner
05/28/2019
LB Illustrated Imprint Gets Name, Team
05/24/2019
Ailen Lujo Named Humanoids’ Sales Director; Salbacka Promoted
Edwards to Depart Hachette UK
05/23/2019
Nominations Open for Christian Indie Awards
S&S to Distribute Waterhouse Press
05/22/2019
Chooseco Offers Indies Direct Program
Lexham Press, 'Christianity Today' Partner on Series
Green Tapped for IBPA's YPC Scholarship
Claire McKinney Starts Plum Bay Publishing
Berger, Bartelme Up at ReaderLink
05/21/2019
Alharthi, Booth Win Man Booker International
NBF's Book Rich Environments Program Returns
NEA Announces Second Round of Fiscal 2019 Grants
05/20/2019
James Gallant Wins 2019 Nicholas Schaffner Award
Quarto, HBG Re-Up Distribution Deal
05/17/2019
PRHPS, Square Enix Press Agree
05/15/2019
NBF Awards $10K Prize to WePAC
Author Janice Peterson Dies
05/14/2019
Longleaf Services Announces Terms Overhaul
R&L Partners With FCT On Thinker's Guides
Indigenous Voices Awards Finalists Announced
Sally Rooney Wins British Book of the Year
05/13/2019
Garth Stein to Lead Binc's Author Leadership Circle
05/09/2019
Scribner to Reissue 'Joy of Cooking'
Gotham Ghostwriters Expands
Pace University Starts Metadata for Book Publishing Course
05/08/2019
Jean Vanier, Author and Humanitarian, Dies at 90
Wiley Acquires Knewton Courseware Assets
05/07/2019
Orange, Blight Among Society of American Historians Honorees
05/06/2019
Book & Journalism Award Winners Announced
Skull + Wind Press Launches
Milkweed Launches Fellowship Program
05/02/2019
Khaled Lutfi Wins 2019 IPA Prix Voltaire
05/01/2019
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Winner Announced
B&N Launches YA Book Club
Searls Takes Home Wolff Translator’s Prize
04/30/2019
NCAC Condemns White Nationalist Action at P&P
Dante Micheaux Wins Four Quartets Prize
NBA Submissions Close May 15
04/29/2019
Casemate to Distribute Histria
04/28/2019
Brooklyn Indies It’s Alive!, So What? Press Team on Distribution, Publishing
04/27/2019
Comic-Con San Diego Announces 2019 Eisner Awards Nominations
04/25/2019
Murray, Fein Ross to be Honored by UJA-Federation
Scharre Wins Colby Award
Brossard Wins Griffin Trust Lifetime Recognition Award
04/23/2019
Lebanese Novel Wins Arabic Booker
Consortium Adds Four to Distribution Network
Storytel Expands to Singapore
04/22/2019
Melville House, NYPL Launch Climate Change Reading Group
04/20/2019
Z2 Comics, Grateful Dead to Publish ‘Grateful Dead Origins’ Graphic Novel
04/18/2019
B&N to Offer Free Download of Mueller Report
04/17/2019
Lucas Honored By WNBA
Bauer Wins Bernstein Award
04/16/2019
Amazon Publishing Announces Upcoming Sci-Fi Story Collection
IPA Prix Voltaire Shortlist Announced
04/15/2019
FSG Acquires New Carly Simon Book About Jackie O
Pixel+Ink, Holiday House, PRHPS Agree
IBC Names New Executive Director
04/14/2019
Riverhead to Pub Nick Hornby's 'State of the Union'
04/12/2019
Man Behind C-3PO to Pen First Book
04/11/2019
2019 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists Announced
S&S to Distribute Tra Publishing Internationally
DC’s Young Animal Returns with Doom Patrol and More
HarperOne Announces Marketing Dept. Changes
04/10/2019
Harvard Business Review Press, RBmedia Partner On Audiobooks
2019 Christopher Awards Winners Announced
Booker International Prize 2019 Shortlist Announced
04/09/2019
Gentile to Head PRH's Education Sales Team
The 11 Most Challenged Books of 2018
2019 Crimefest Awards Shortlist Announced
04/08/2019
Bong Leaves Fischer
04/05/2019
Kickstarter Launches Publishing Conference
2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Named
04/04/2019
NBCC Opens New Partnership Category for Publishing Industry Members
 Ahoy Comics Inks Distribution Deal with Diamond Book Distributors
04/03/2019
Lerner Announces New STEM Publishing Partnership
BISG Announces Keynote, Agenda for 2019 Annual Meeting of Members
04/02/2019
Irwin Wins Hayek Book Prize
MoCCA Arts Fest 2019 Opens April 6-7 in Manhattan
04/01/2019
2019 Christian Book Award Finalists Announced
Jordan, Weidman Up at S&S
03/29/2019
DC Marks 80 Years of Batman with Detective Comics #1000 Hardcover
Books International Adds U.K. Companies
03/28/2019
PRH Publisher Services, Blue Star Press Agree
03/26/2019
Audible Announces Free Audiobook, 'The Mueller Report'
03/21/2019
Trafalgar Square Adds Four to Distribution Network
Holland Retires from Macmillan
03/20/2019
Academy of American Poets Announces Inaugural Leadership Awards
03/14/2019
Ingram Adds Two to Distribution Network
S&S to Publish Stone's Next Amazon Book
03/13/2019
2019 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners Announced
Zondervan Launches New Imprints
Laurence King to Distribute Chronicle in Asia
National Book Awards Submissions Open for 2019
2019 Man Booker International Longlist Announced
Ingram Launches Marketing Insights Service
03/12/2019
DC to Release New DC Super Hero Girls Graphic Novel
BIGNY Hosts Panel On Digital Book Marketing
03/11/2019
Serial Box Attracts $4.5M in Investment Funding
03/08/2019
2018 B&N Discover Award Winners Announced
03/07/2019
Lambda Announces Literary Awards Finalists
Olsewski to Join HarperOne
BookBub Enters Audiobook Space with Chirp
Fry Heads to RHCP
B&N Names New V-P and General Manager
03/05/2019
Finalists for NYPL’s Helen Bernstein Book Award Announced
03/04/2019
Sheldon, HBG Agree on Distribution
Karl Lagerfeld Bio Lands at Holt
Smetanka Takes Over from Shoemaker at Counterpoint
02/28/2019
The 'Cut' Expands Into Fiction
02/27/2019
S&S Names New Director of Speakers Bureau
Cengage Unlimited Hits One Million Subscriptions
02/26/2019
Orca to Distribute Theytus
Denson Joins AAP
Lukas Prizes Shortlists Announced
02/25/2019
Atypon Acquires Authorea and Manuscripts Platforms
02/22/2019
The Soho Agency Launches
MIT Press to Distribute No Place Press
02/21/2019
Monnerat Up at HarperCollins Brasil
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Launches Sue Grafton Memorial Award
Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalists Named
Hayek Book Prize Finalists Announced
02/20/2019
Nebula Award Finalists Announced
L.A. Times Book Prizes Announce Finalists, Honorees
MacDowell Names Philip Himberg New Executive Director
02/19/2019
Torrey Sharp Now the Sole Owner of Faceout Studio
DiPreta Comes Home to HC
02/14/2019
B&N Picks Books for Spring
02/13/2019
2019 AJL Jewish Fiction Winners Announced
B&T to Distribute Seven New Clients
02/12/2019
S&S, HCI Agree on Worldwide Distribution
02/11/2019
BIGNY February Event to Focus On M&A
IBPA Names New Board of Directors Candidates
02/06/2019
Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant Applications Open
Amazon Crossing to Publish Stieg Larsson True Crime Story
Kickstarter Debuts Exquisite Objects Showcase
02/05/2019
Claire Roberts Forms New Agency
BMI Announces Rising Star Awards
Audible, ChooseCo Partner Up On Interactive Stories
02/04/2019
New Director at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
02/02/2019
Rizzoli New York to Distribute Pavilion Books
02/01/2019
Indie Poetry Publishers Black Ocean and Gramma Poetry Join Forces
01/29/2019
S&S to Distribute David Zwirner Books
2018 B&N Discover Award Shortlist
01/28/2019
Roxane Gay Named Judge for Flannery O’Connor Award
Scribd Marks One Million Subscribers
NetGalley Launches NetGalley Advanced
01/25/2019
Changes to Abrams Sales Department
01/24/2019
Ogino, Tamaoki, Nakamura Join Tuttle-Mori Board
PEN America Names 2019 Literary Awards Finalists
P&W to Expand with Hearst Foundations Support
WNET Launches All Arts Channel and Streaming Platform
01/22/2019
Alyson Sinclair Launches Nectar Literary
MacDowell Names 86 New Fellows
Binc Foundation Adds Three Board Members
01/18/2019
Histria Books Acquires Addison & Highsmith
01/17/2019
Magination Press Cements New Sales Partnerships
MacDowell Colony Board Elects New Directors, New Board Members
01/16/2019
Zaffiris Joins Shakespeare & Co.
01/15/2019
2019 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners Announced
01/10/2019
PRH to Distribute Crooked Lane
Akbar Wins Ploughshares First Book Award
01/09/2019
HCCP Names New V-P, Publisher of Nelson Books
Finalists Named for 15th Annual Story Prize
National Jewish Book Award Winners
King to Be Honored with Lifetime Achievement Audie
DC, Vertigo Titles Now Available Via Comixology Unlimited
01/08/2019
William Gibson Named SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master
B&N to Hold Book Club Monthly, Picks First Read of 2019
01/07/2019
Joy Harjo, Natasha Trethewey Named AAP Chancellors
WordStock and IBID Join Forces
01/04/2019
NBN Adds Three to Distribution Network
01/03/2019
Gaydos Named Editor-In-Chief of Oni Press
Binc, Sourcebooks, DPI Launch New Scholarship
01/02/2019
St. Paul's Common Good Up for Sale
Sourcebooks Acquires Four Series from Dunemere

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