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Harper360 Turns U.K. Cookbook Into U.S. Hit
In March 2015, British singer Sam Smith took to Instagram to tell his 3.6 million followers that one woman, Amelia Freer, had changed his life with her book, "Eat. Nourish. Glow.," which he credited with his recent weight loss.
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At Sourcebooks, Diversification Drives Gains
Sourcebooks continues to move forward at a rapid pace, with company executives reporting a 20% sales gain in 2014 over 2013.
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The New Globe Pequot Press
In October 2014, Rowman & Littlefield CEO Jed Lyons brought on Jim Childs, former president of Time Home Entertainment and publisher of Oxmoor House, as publisher of Globe Pequot, which R&L had acquired five months earlier.
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Knopf Working to Ensure ‘City on Fire’ Catches Fire
Knopf is putting lots of marketing muscle behind "City on Fire," a 900-page first novel by Garth Risk Hallberg, for which the publisher is building bookseller interest well before its October pub date.
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ProQuest Acquires Coutts from Ingram
ProQuest will assume ownership and management of Coutts and MyiLibrary, and “form a strategic partnership" with Ingram for print fulfillment.
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Time Home Entertainment Rebrands
Time Inc. has renamed its book and bookazine publishing division, Time Home Entertainment, Inc., as Time Inc. Books.
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News Briefs: Week of April 27, 2015
Scholastic selling tech group to HMH and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Univ of Minnesota Press Gets Interactive with Scholarly Books
Through a grant, the University of Minnesota is launching an effort that will allow it to produce interactive digital editions of the books it is publishing in print.
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Penguin Random House Debuts New Unified Website
The publisher's newly designed website, which brings Random House and Penguin together online, is optimized for mobile devices and, according to PRH CEO Markus Dohle is “consumer-focused.”
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Publishers Applaud Removal of Sanctions on Syrian Authors
At the urging of a coalition of publishers, regulations prohibiting American publishers from working with authors in the war-torn region was recently lifted, under a general license.
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News Briefs: Week of April 20, 2015
HC, Amazon reach terms agreement and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Liveright to Publish ‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’ in Fall 2015
The collected works will be arranged in the chronological order of their original publication, with new English translations of 13 of the 14 books.
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Ig Plans Series on Books That Inspired Writers to Write
We all know how certain books, read at key moments in our lives, remain memorable and influential for years afterward.
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Penguin Hotline Brings Tailored Book Recs to Canada
PRH's U.S. division successfully launched the program in December 2014, and received 32,000 page views and 3,600 requests for recommendations during its first month alone.
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HC Adds Four More Global Offices; Signs Slaughter
As part of its global expansion, HarperCollins has signed Karin Slaughter to a four book deal in which the publisher has acquired world English rights as well as foreign language rights in about a dozen languages.
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Poets Look Inward
This spring, during National Poetry Month (April) and the weeks immediately before and after, publishers are pushing out a host of memoirs by poets.
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With New Leaders, North Atlantic Books Looks Ahead
Last year was the 40th anniversary of Berkeley publisher North Atlantic Books, and the 50th anniversary of Io, the alternative literary journal that marked the company’s beginnings.
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News Briefs: Week of April 13, 2015
Oyster adds e-book retail and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Beacon Adds Editors, Grows List
The Boston-based press is positioning itself for growth with two new senior editors, one in New York City and one in Chicago, who will help it increase its list from 35 to 45 titles a year.