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PW's Top Publishing Stories of 2015
Without a face-off between a Big Five publisher and the world’s largest bookseller or a major e-book price-fixing case, 2015 was, by trade standards, a quiet year marked by unexpected new books from two bestsellers: E.L. James and Harper Lee.
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City Lights Publishers Shines On
San Francisco’s City Lights Publishers is wrapping up its 60th year in publishing this month.
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Penguin Random House Highlights 2015 with Video
Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, added a video component to his annual year-end letter to employees this year which served to highlight the bestselling and award-winning titles the company published this year as well as the progress the company has made in the integration of Penguin and Random House.
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News Briefs: Week of December 14, 2015
October bookstore sales up and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Bill Henderson Marks 40 Years of the Pushcart Prize
From its humble beginnings as a project launched by an "about-to-be-fired editor" in 1974, the annual prize for the best in small press publishing has come quite a long way.
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Education Publisher Ditches Amazon, Sales Soar
Since its highly publicized decision to stop selling books through Amazon, sales at EDC have skyrocketed.
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IPG Head Curt Matthews to Retire
Curt Matthews, the founder and CEO of Chicago Review Press, Inc., the parent company of IPG, will retire at the end of this month to be succeeded by his son Joe.
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News Briefs: Week of December 7, 2015
Archer to succeed Gentel at HMH and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Microcosm Publishing Celebrates 20 Years
Two decades after starting in a Portland, Ore., bedroom, Microcosm is having its busiest year yet and riding a wave of expansion.
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Publishing Graduate Programs, 2015: Digital Is the New Normal
A drive to stay current and competitive keeps coursework at graduate publishing programs evolving.
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PW Notables Of the Year: Margot Atwell, Maris Kreizman, and Jamie Tanner
Kickstarter, and crowdfunding in general, continues to transform the way small publishers and self-publishers secure funding for all types of book projects.
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PW Notables Of the Year: Chris Jackson
It’s hard to point to an editor that has had a better run than Spiegel & Grau’s Chris Jackson.
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PW Notables Of the Year: Geoff Kloske
No publishing imprint had the kind of commercial and critical success in 2015 that Riverhead Books did.
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Sonny Mehta: 2015 PW Person of the Year
Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief of Knopf and chairman of Knopf Doubleday, has steered the vaunted literary publisher through myriad changes since taking over nearly three decades ago.
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Flatiron to Pub Oprah's Memoir, Host Her New Imprint
Macmillan's Flatiron Books will publish Oprah Winfrey's memoir, 'The Life You Want,' in January 2017. It will be the first title at a new nonfiction imprint dedicated to books selected by the media magnate.
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African-American Publishing, 2015
As race continues to be a hot topic in America, academic presses that have long specialized in African-American nonfiction are finding new opportunities in the trade market.
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News Briefs: Week of November 23, 2015
September bookstore sales rose 6.7% and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Weisberg Named Macmillan President; Loja Promoted at PRH
In Executive Shuffle, Weisberg Departs Penguin Random House for Macmillan.