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HarperCollins Sales President Ed Spade to Depart
Spade, who has served as president of sales at HarperCollins Publishers since 2023, will step down on August 15 after four years with the company. During his tenure, Spade oversaw a reorganization of the sales team and a return to profitability in 2024.
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Former Unbound Staffers Launch U.K. Publishing Agency
Former Unbound head of rights Ilona Chavasse, publicity director Rina Gill, and marketing manager Divia Kainth have teamed to launch Tiger Team Creative. Unbound, a U.K.-based crowdfunding publisher, filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.
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Backlist Books on Tyranny See a Trump Bump
Nonfiction titles exploring and explaining authoritarianism—especially Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny—are surging at independent booksellers nationwide.
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How ‘Seduction Theory’ by Emily Adrian Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest novel.
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Scholastic’s Earnings Growth Outpaced Sales Gains in Fiscal 2025
Cost controls at the children’s publisher boosted profits for the company despite sluggish sales in the trade and book fair divisions and a sales decline in educational solutions.
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PEN America Backs Bill to Limit Use of Creative Works as Criminal Evidence
The free speech organization has joined the Free Our Art coalition in supporting the reintroduction of federal legislation that would restrict the use of artistic works—including literature and poetry—as evidence in criminal and civil court proceedings.
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New Directions Promotions Usher in Next Chapter
Following the retirement of longtime EVP Laurie Callahan, New Directions has named Tynan Kogane editor-in-chief along with a number of other high-level promotions.
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Open Road to Reissue ‘The Fox and the Hound’
Re-Discovery Lit, the company’s imprint for out-of-print and reverted titles, will rerelease Daniel P. Mannix’s 1967 novel next month. The publisher described the book as “notably darker” than the Disney classic it inspired.
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TwoMorrows Finds a Place for Books on Comics
The Raleigh, N.C.–based house has found success through publishing both books and magazines covering comics history.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2025
This fall’s hottest debut fiction is all about location, location, location, whether in stories about crazed house hunters, Upstate New York politics, hypocrisy in the Deep South, or finance in the Middle East.
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