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HBG, Ingram Buy Perseus
The Perseus Books Group is being sold to the Hachette Book Group which will sell the distribution business to Ingram.
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Bibliomotion Launches 30gurus Instructional Platform
Bibliomotion has teamed with Exploros, an educational technology developer, to launch 30gurus.com, a learning platform that allows authors to turn their books into educational courses.
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News Briefs: Week of June 23, 2014
Apple, states settle and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Holladay House, A Strange Object Debut
In 2012, three women who had been working in the book industry decided that the time was right to strike out on their own.
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Angry Robot Closes Two Imprints
U.K.-based Angry Robot Books is closing its young adult and crime/mystery imprints, effectively immediately.
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Cleis Launches Erotic Romance Imprint
Tempted Romance will publish 12 titles per year, beginning in September.
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Four Questions for...Coffee House's Caroline Casey
Caroline Casey, Coffee House Press managing director, talks to PW about Eimear McBride's debut novel, "A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing," which recently won this year's Baileys Women's Fiction Prize.
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Court Delays Hastings Merger Again
A judge has prevented the acquisition of Hastings from going forward before June 26.
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Duncan Baird Rebrands as Nourish
With an eye toward healthy cooking and living, U.K.-based Duncan Baird Publishing is rebranding itself as Nourish Books.
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Crown Unveils Automated Galley Access for Bloggers
Penguin Random House's Crown Publishing Group has launched an automated system to make its ARCs directly available to bloggers.
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Supreme Court Delivers Key Free Speech Decision
The decision affirms that a person, organization or business should not have to risk prosecution to challenge the Constitutionality of a law with First Amendment implications.
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Adaptive Studios Revives Abandoned Content
Adaptive Studios is an unusual venture that looks to find abandoned intellectual property and revive it for production in a wide variety of media. The venture has launched Adaptive Books and released its first title this month.
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Space for Rent
A recent expansion by PWxyz provides opportunity for executive desk/small space office rental at PW's Manhattan office. We are looking for like-minded companies interested in the square footage at our headquarters on 23rd Street. Send inquires to hr@publishersweekly.com.
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A Landmark Win For ‘Mundo Cruel’
At the ceremony for the 26th annual Lambda Literary Awards at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City on June 2, Luis Negrón, a bookseller from Santurce, Puerto Rico, accepted the Gay General Fiction prize for his debut work, "Mundo Cruel."
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News Briefs: Week of June 16, 2014
Bookstore sales fell 1.3% in April and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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HBG Closes Business Plus
As part of the staff reductions announced last week by the Hachette Book Group, the company is closing its Business Plus imprint and folding the titles into the Grand Central Publishing list.
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HarperCollinsCanada Launches New Imprint
HarperCollinsCanada has unveiled a new imprint, HarperAvenue, for "must-read" Canadian and international fiction and nonfiction.
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Square One Title Surveys Arthur Conan Doyle and Jack the Ripper
Nonfiction house Square One Publishers is breaking into the true crime category with a hybrid nonfiction work that looks at the relationship between Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the legendary serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
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Open Road Launches Series for Controversial Works
Forbidden Bookshelf, a series devoted to "resurrecting books that focused on issues and events that are too often left in the dark," kicks off June 10.
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Staying in the Loop
It’s no secret that writing can be a solitary business. “People talk about just how isolating it used to be,” says author Angie Fox (the Accidental Demon Slayer series).
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