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Ben Sevier Up at Hachette Book Group as Hachette UK Gets Restructured
To help achieve Hachette's corporate goal of creating a unified English-language publishing structure, CEO David Shelley has promoted Ben Sevier to head the Grand Central Publishing Group, combined the U.K. and U.S. distribution businesses under one leader, and divided Hachette UK into three groups.
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Alyssa Awe to Join Macmillan as Exec V-p of Biz Dev, Strategy
Awe will join the publisher in the newly created role on June 3, and will oversee the publisher's strategic initiatives, business development, and central marketing, as well as its audio division and publishers-at-large.
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How ‘Cue the Sun!’ by Emily Nussbaum Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the Pulitzer Prize winner’s second book.
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Mary Beth Thomas Out as HarperCollins Offers Sales Buyouts
Mary Beth Thomas, the v-p and director of independent retail sales at HarperCollins, has left the company, PW can confirm. In addition, HarperCollins is offering a voluntary buyout program for salespeople, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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ACLS Announces 2024 Open Access Book Award Winners
The winning authors will share a cash award of $20,000, and the winning publishers will share a grant for $30,000 to support “the immediate open access publication of at least two new books.”
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Mystery Writers of America Celebrates 2024 Edgar Award Winners
The winners—including James Lee Burke, who won the award for Best Novel, and Linda Castillo, who took home two awards—were announced at the 78th annual Edgar Awards Banquet, held on May 1 at the Manhattan Marriott Marquis in New York City.
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Innovators Share 'Disruptive' Ideas at PubU 2024
Panelists from She Writes Press, Microcosm Publishing, Kickstarter, and Cake Creative spoke to the Independent Book Publishers Association's theme of 'Rise and Disrupt' at its annual conference last weekend.
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IBPA Rebrands Annual Book Award, Adds DEI Categories
The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards, which honor titles in 57 categories, will be renamed the IBPA Book Awards, and will celebrate books across seven additional, identity-inclusive categories. IBPA also established a new Jan Nathan Lifetime Achievement Award in memory of its late founder.
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PEN America Cancels 2024 World Voices Festival Amid Further Fallout
The cancellation of what would have been the 20th edition of the free speech organization's sprawling festival came just days after it axed the 2024 PEN America Literary Awards ceremony amid mass withdrawals of books from consideration and continued criticism.
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Manga Goes Dark with Smudge
A new imprint from Living the Line books trades on the appeal of cult manga.
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How Book Publishers Can Combat Misinformation
In 'Attack from Within,' Barbara McQuade explores disinformation and the need to report, and defend, the truth. Her publisher, Seven Stories, is taking note—even as fact-checking remains scarce in book publishing.
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Manga Fans Can’t Get Enough
Manga is so popular in North America that publishers are expanding to comics from across Asia, as Japanese publishers also invest in marketing directly to the West.
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The Rise of Manga Indies and New Imprints
From micropublishers showcasing up-and-coming creators to larger companies adding specialty imprints, there’s lots to discover on the edges of the manga mainstream.
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Endnotes: How ‘Search and Destroy Vol. 1’ by Atsushi Kaneko Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for Ben Applegate and Phil Christie’s English-language translation of a punk update on a classic manga.
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Poetry Foundation Offers Aid to SPD Presses as the Search for New Homes Continues
The Poetry Foundation is funding a new grant program to help presses, while more than 70 former Small Press Distribution clients have found new distribution partners.
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Oakland’s Poet Laureate Receives Rainin Arts Fellowship, Plans Anthology with New Indie Press
Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga, honored for her theater innovation, is co-editing a bilingual anthology with Oso Perezoso Press, launched by indie publisher J.K. Fowler.
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Zodiac Academy Authors Launch Publishing Venture
Sisters Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti will rerelease their self-published Zodiac Academy romantasy series in paperback under their newly formed company, Dark Ink Publishing. On April 23, Dark Ink released 'Restless Stars,' the ninth and final book in the series, with an announced print run of 80,000.
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Norton Sues Follett, Alleging Millions in Past Due Payments
In an April 17 complaint, the publisher alleges that Follett Higher Education could owe the publisher more than $9 million by May 1, for both print and digital content.
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Heyday at Fifty
A revered California publisher celebrates its golden anniversary.
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Entangled Publishing Soars into the Empyrean
After a record-breaking 2023, the publisher of Rebecca Yarros’s blockbusters, 'Fourth Wing' and 'Iron Flame,' looks to keep flying high in 2024.
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