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New Survey Shows Canadians Still Prefer Print Over Digital
The survey, published this month by Booknet Canada, found that Canadians prefer reading books in print. It also found that more are opting to do their reading on smartphones, or listen to audiobooks.
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UMass Press Introduces Bright Leaf Imprint
The new imprint from the university press will publish New England-focused books for a general audience on regional topics.
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The ‘New York Times’ Books Desk Will Make You Read Again
Its chief critic took a buy-out. It's consolidating like crazy. But the Gray Lady's books team is neither flailing nor failing. Here's what it is doing.
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PRH Goes to the Park
Penguin Random House has wed its long-standing partnerships with New York City's Public Theater and Literacy Partners with a philanthropic book progam tied to Shakespeare in the Park's production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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TitleTown Adds Two Imprints
The small press in Green Bay, Wisc., which specializes in true crime and survivor stories, is moving in new directions with the launches of a children’s imprint and an imprint focusing on books with religious themes.
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Australian Authors Start Online Marketplace
The Australian Society of Authors has launched a digital marketplace, showcasing and selling the work of writers to publishers, agents, and literary scouts throughout the world.
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HarperCollins Gets Global and Physical
In a flat market, the publisher looks beyond e-books toward expanding its role in the global market and in physical distribution.
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NPD Top 10 Publishers Ranked by Print & Digital Unit Sales, 2016
NPD has put together a list that includes e-book sales from its PubTrack Digital service in addition to its BookScan sales list. Here's a look.
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Moppet Books Moves Forward With KinderGuides Line
In spite of a ruling in which the publisher was held liable for copyright infringement, the press will launch a new line of books this fall.
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Inside the Success of ‘The Couple Next Door’
For author Shari Lapena, entering into the crowded category known as the domestic thriller really paid off for her U.S. debut.
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Guy Intoci Leaves Dzanc Books, Michelle Dotter Named Publisher
Citing personal circumstances, Dzanc Books' Guy Intoci is stepping down this month as publisher and editor-in-chief at the small literary press. He will be replaced by senior editor Michelle Dotter.
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On the Road with the Hachette Book Group
HBG charters a private bus for a 280-mile day trip, taking 26 editors and publishers (plus one reporter) on a sojourn from New York to bookstores in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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Open Book: The Magnificent Adrienne Sharp
Over drinks with 'PW' adult books director and Open Book columnist Louisa Ermelino, HarperCollins editor Sara Nelson shares news of a spring novel.
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Pearson to Cut 3,000 More Jobs
The worldwide educational publisher hopes to save 300 million pounds over the next three years by reducing headcount. Pearson also reported that sales at PRH fell slightly in the first half of 2017, but that profits rose.
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Macmillan Heads Downtown, Leaving Flatiron Building
Macmillan Publishers has signed a 20-year lease at 120 Broadway, called the "Equitable Building," in lower Manhattan, and will leave Chelsea's iconic Flatiron Building.
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B&NE Steps Up Fight Against Counterfeiters
Barnes & Noble Education has agreed to implement a program developed earlier this year in an attempt to stop the spread of counterfeit of print textbooks.
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S&S Asks Court to Dismiss Yiannopoulos Suit
In a July 28 filing, S&S claims that Yiannopoulos legally "accepted" termination of the contract, and asked the court to "put an end to Yiannopoulos’s self-promotional misuse of judicial resources."
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S&S Announces Title for Forthcoming Clinton Memoir
Hillary Clinton's anticipated new memoir, due out September 12, has been given a title. Simon & Schuster said the book, which will focus on Clinton's defeat in the recent presidential election, will be called 'What Happened.'
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Cover Story: ‘Yesterday’
Felicia Yap’s debut crosses several genres, which made the job of Gregg Kulick, the senior art director in charge of the cover, all the trickier.
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