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Authors and Booksellers Mobilize for Midterm Voters
Writers for Democratic Action, an organization of some 2,600 authors, is mobilizing its membership in a campaign called Book the Vote. WDA will facilitate nonpartisan voter registration for the 2022 midterm election, working with authors, bookstores, and libraries to educate voters about their home states’ voting procedures.
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Again, a Fantagraphics Graphic Novel Is Stranded On a Ship
The entire 10,000-copy print run of cartoonist Jordan Crane’s new graphic novel, 'Keeping Two,' is on board a container ship that has been mired in the Chesapeake Bay for more than three weeks.
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Random House, Sugar23 Partner to Launch Sugar23 Book Imprint
Random House has joined with Sugar23, a TV/film and content management and media production house, to launch Sugar23 Books, a co-branded publishing imprint that will develop and release titles in partnership with a variety of imprints at the Random House division.
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New Categories Fuel Growth at Andrews McMeel
The publisher saw strong sales across the board over the past two years, with net revenues up more than 25% from 2019.
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Paper Shortage, Workforce Issues Tackled in Webinar
The publishing industry faces continuing supply chain issues and paper shortages, while another set of challenges has appeared in early 2022, in the form of employee resignations and work-life balance issues.
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From the Archive: April 16, 1973
In April 1973, Grosset & Dunlap, which is now a Penguin children’s imprint, announced the impending publication of a very adult book: Norman Mailer’s biography of Marilyn Monroe.
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Gayatri Patnaik Named Director of Beacon Press
Following Helene Atwan's retirement, Patnaik has been promoted to director, effective July 30.
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Lonely Planet Blends Print, QR Codes in New Experience Guidebooks
Lonely Planet has launched a set of travel guides featuring “pull-out city maps, gatefold maps, and QR codes to unlock additional digital content from the Lonely Planet website.” Guides to Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, and Scotland roll out this spring.
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Z2 Comics Has Found Its Groove
The independent graphic novel publisher, which evolved into its current business model in 2019, is forging a different path to market than many of its competitors while sticking closely to the aesthetics that hardcore comic fans know and love.
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America's Biggest Publishers Keep Posting Profits
The four of the Big Five publishers to release their financial results publicly all saw strong increases in earnings in 2021.
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From the Archive: April 8, 2002
Twenty years ago, Oprah Winfrey ended the first incarnation of Oprah’s Book Club, which made its authors instant bestsellers.
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LGBTQ Books Removed from Target.com
On March 25, word started to spread on Twitter that a multitude of LGBTQ books—many of them by debut authors—were inexplicably missing from Target’s website, despite a number of the titles having previously been listed for pre-order.
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Driving Publishing into the Future: Spotlight on FADEL
The rights and royalties management company aims to help publishers keep up with the changing industry through innovative solutions and technology offerings (Sponsored)
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HarperWave Rides Wellness Surge
A decade ago, health, wellness, and lifestyle publishing veterans Karen Rinaldi and Julie Will set out to disrupt “the old paradigm of diet-and-workout books”—and offered HarperCollins something it was missing in the process.
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PM Press Decamps for Binghamton
Radical independent publisher PM Press has bought a 17,000-square-foot warehouse in Binghamton, N.Y., and no longer calls Oakland, Calif., its home base.
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From the Archive: March 30, 1998
This summer, the courts will rule on Bertelsmann subsidiary PRH’s planned purchase of Simon & Schuster. But 24 years ago, the industry was agape over Bertelsmann’s acquisition of Random House.
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HBG Diversity Efforts Continue in Hiring and New Partnerships
In its annual update on its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, Hachette Book Group reported that BIPOC employees comprised 35.4% of its workforce last year, up from 32.9% in 2020.
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What Happened to Marilyn Monroe?: PW Talks with Anthony Summers
We spoke with investigative journalist Anthony Summers about the revised edition of his book 'Goddess: the Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe,' what new things the public will learn about Monroe and the Kennedys from its Netflix adaptation, and more.
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Grady Named to Expanded Role at Chronicle
Chronicle Books has appointed Lynn Grady group publisher for a newly formed division that will encompass Princeton Architectural Press alongside the recently launched imprints Chronicle Prism and Chronicle Chroma.
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Celebrating 75 Years: Close-up Globe Pequot
Globe Pequot publisher Judith Schnell spoke to PW about the company’s longevity, what’s new across the company’s numerous imprints, and how Globe is celebrating its 75th. (Sponsored)
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