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Penguin Random House Begins
With the deal now done, the new executive team of Penguin Random House can begin the process of building a 21st-century publishing company, CEO Markus Dohle told PW in an interview last week from London, where he was on the first leg of a tour to visit the various global offices of PRH.
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HUP Bumps Up Buzzed-About History Title
The scholarly press has pushed up the publication date of Ben Urwand's book, The Collaboration, after a piece in the New York Times touted the work as something "creating a stir" among fellow historians.
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Akashic Launches Infamous Books with Rapper Prodigy
Akashic Books is partnering with Infamous Records, a music label founded and run by the Hip hop artist Albert “Prodigy” Johnson, to launch the Infamous Books imprint, a line of urban fiction.
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Redmayne Succeeds Barnsley as CEO of HarperCollins U.K.
Charlie Redmayne, who left HarperCollins U.K. in 2011 to become CEO of Pottermore, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Digital Publishing venture, has been named CEO of HarperCollins U.K., effective August 5.
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News Briefs: Week of July 1, 2013
HBG Buys Hyperion Adult List and more
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New Davis Imprint Named 37 Ink
The new Atria Publishing Group imprint formed by recently hired Dawn Davis will be called 37 Ink.
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Random House Drops Paula Deen
Paula Deen has lost her publisher. The celebrity chef, who's been suffering from a raft of bad press, has had her first book with Random House, Paula Deen’s New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up, canceled.
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Podcast: Libraries Stay Cool
Libraries still matter in the digital age, it turns out, even if the numbers of e-books on virtual shelves remain limited. Listen here.
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Hogarth Doing Int'l Shakespeare Project
Random House's Hogarth imprint has launched The Hogarth Shakespeare project, which will see commissioned authors writing prose retellings of the Bard's plays.
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Readmill Teams with Ingram's MyLibrary
Readmill, the digital reading platform, is teaming with the Ingram Content Group’s MyLibrary, a library content aggregation platform, to allow library patrons to use the Readmill application to transfer, store and read e-book content across all iOS devices.
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Kindle Worlds Store Opens
Amazon has opened the Kindle Worlds Store and Self-Service Submission Platform.
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AAUP: Bridging Worlds
Nearly 800 people from 10 countries attended the meeting of the Association of American University Presses held in Boston from June 20-22.
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Penguin, Author Solutions Seek Dismissal of Potential Class Action Suit
Penguin and its subsidiary Author Solutions have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against them that alleges fraudulent business practices.
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Random House 'Monitoring' Deen Story
Random House says it is still continuing to monitor the Paula Deen story, but that at present Deen’s first book for the company, Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up, is still set for an October publication.
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Weltbild Stores Drop Vancouver Publisher
Weltbild faces protests over dropped Canadian publisher Icon Empire Press.
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News Briefs: Week of June 24, 2013
Sales, Earnings Fall at Wiley and more
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Fitzgerald, Stephen King Check Into Algonquin Hotel
A Simon & Schuster package will offer guests the chance to book a stay in a suite in the Algonquin Hotel to enjoy its creature comforts from its well-stocked bookcase of classics and advanced copies of new releases.
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Canadian Council Awards Univ. of Nebraska Press $2.5 Million
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has awarded the University of Nebraska a $2.5 million grant to edit and publish a 17-volume series of the papers of Franz Boas, a pioneer of modern anthropology.
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Day's 'Entwined With You' Tops Charts
The third book in Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, Entwined With You, has sold over 550,000 copies (print and digital combined) in its first week on sale.
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UNC Press To Explore University Press Obstacles Through Grant
The University of North Carolina Press has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York to explore the obstacles and opportunities facing university presses as they seek to incorporate various forms of digital publishing.
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