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HarperCollins Continues Facebook Live Programming with Holiday Campaign
HarperCollins, which launched its daily Facebook Live programming in June and has since reached nearly10 million viewers, kicked off its holiday programming last week.
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HBG Issues New Environmental Goals
The publisher just released an update on how it has performed in meeting several environmental objectives and announced some new goals for the 2017-2020 period.
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GalleyCat Shutters
GalleyCat, the arm of the Adweek Blog Network covering the book publishing industry, has closed after a decade of operations.
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Reidy Hails Profitable Year at S&S and 'Stable' Publishing Marketplace
Led by Bruce Springsteen's bestselling 'Born to Run,' S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy reports a profitable year at S&S and a "period of relative stability in the publishing marketplace.”
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Search Begins for Raab’s Successor at Grand Central
Despite the pending January departures of two top executives at Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch said that Grand Central remains an important HBG division.
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The Big Book Publishing Stories of 2016
The ouster of Barnes & Noble's CEO, the sale of Perseus, and Follett's purchase of Baker & Taylor were the big publishing stories of 2016.
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Seven Stories Celebrates 20 Years of Books on Social Justice
Seven Stories Press is going strong heading into its third decade.
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U.S. Poetry Orgs Form Coalition, Launch Programs on Migration
Twenty U.S.-based nonprofit poetry organizations have formed the Poetry Coalition, a coalition dedicated to promoting the value of poetry in American culture and communities.
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Popelars Named Associate Publisher at Algonquin
Craig Popelars, a 22-year veteran at Algonquin Books, has been named associate publisher of its adult division, effective immediately.
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The Fidel Castro Reader: Castro's Cuba, and What Comes Next
A round-up of books about Fidel Castro's rise to power, life in Cuba during the Castro regime, and what comes next after Castro's death.
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The Fidel Castro Reader: Castro, Kennedy, the Mob, and the CIA
Cuba may be an island, but the man who put it at the center of so much 20th century drama certainly wasn't.
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The Fidel Castro Reader: Biographies
A dip into the PW archives reveals a slew of books about Fidel Castro, the nation he ruled, and its impact on world events. Here, we round up books about the man himself, including his autobiography.
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Norton Names Steven Pace Director of Trade Sales
Steven Pace, the sales director at Workman, will join W. W. Norton on January 2 as its new director of trade sales, replacing longtime v-p and trade sales director William F. Russin.
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Jill Corcoran Expands into Adult Market
Jill Corcoran Literary Agency, in an effort to both extend its reach in the children's book market and expand into the adult book market, has announced the addition of four new agents.
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Raab, Futter to Step Down at GCP
Grand Central Publishing president and publisher Jamie Raab and Deb Futter, v-p and editor-in-chief of hardcovers at GCP and publisher of Twelve Books, will both leave the company at the end of January.
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Small Press, Big Prize: Inside Brooklyn Arts Press
Brooklyn Arts Press is a one-man operation that, despite its scant resources, took home the National Book Award for Poetry this year.
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Andy LeCount to Join HC as Sales Director
Andy LeCount will join HarperCollins on December 29 as v-p and director of sales for general books, according to a letter from president of sales Josh Marwell to staff.
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Annick Press's Colleen MacMillan to Retire, Vancouver Office to Close
After 17 years as the associate publisher of Annick Press, Colleen MacMillan will retire on February 3, and Annick will close its Vancouver outpost at the end of December.
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Publishers Rushing Books on Coping with Trump's Election
Three publishers are rushing out books targeted to help readers who are opposed to Donald Trump's election cope over the next four years.
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Comics Publisher Last Gasp Shuts Down its Distribution Operation
The iconic San Francisco publisher and distributor is getting out of the distribution buisness after December 2016 and will focus on its publishing operations.