Short news items from the world of book publishing:

04/02/2025
GrubStreet Founder Eve Bridburg to Step Down
Books Forward Celebrates 25 Years with Free Consultations
04/01/2025
2025 Christian Indie Awards Winners Announced
Jason Orlando to Head E-Commerce at Abrams
03/31/2025
Jacqueline Sells Named VP of Int’l Sales and Business Development at Ingram
Distribution Deals for the Week of March 31, 2025
Bob Marsh Named President of Globe Pequot
03/28/2025
Professional Audiobook Narrators Association to hold Virtual Conference
03/27/2025
Kate Medina to Retire from Random House
03/26/2025
Book.io Receives Second Round of Funding from Ingram
03/25/2025
Yahdon Israel, Jacquelynn Kerubo Osoro Join Center for Fiction Board
Applications Open for Binc’s Kamil Writers Prize
03/24/2025
2025 PEN Awards Longlists Announced
Distribution Deals for the Week of March 24, 2025
03/20/2025
Bloomsbury Expects Record Fiscal 2025
Book Aid International Sends More Than 35,000 Books to Middle East
Square Enix Teams with PRH on Manga Initiative
03/19/2025
Detained Comics Artist Returns Home to Britain
Black Lawrence Press Launches Immigrant Author Fellowship
EveryLibrary Launches Platform to Save IMLS
Saints & Sinners Festival Renames Award to Honor Dorothy Allison, Felice Picano
Dominique Raccah to Receive BISG’s 2025 Lifetime Service Award
03/18/2025
David Kramer Appointed CEO of UTA
Agustina Casal to Head Digital Sales at HBG
Mad Cave Studios to Host ‘L.A. Strong’ Benefit and Book Launch
03/17/2025
Layoffs Hit Silver Sprocket
TarcherPerigee Rebrands to Tarcher
Distribution Deals for the Week of March 17, 2025
03/14/2025
Harlequin to Open 2025 Mentorship Submissions
03/13/2025
Wiley Releases AI Guidance for Authors
New Hires at PRH Christian Publishing Group
Nantucket Book Festival Lineup Announced for June
ABA Condemns Second Raid on Educational Bookshop
03/12/2025
Kevin Roditeli Departs Massive Publishing
2025 National Book Awards Submission Open, Judges Announced
NetGalley Reorganizes Ahead of Product Launch
03/11/2025
Transgender Law Center Organizes Spring Auction
03/10/2025
Mara Anastas Forms Muse Media
Crazy Maple Studio Launches ReelShort Publishing House
Distribution Deals for the Week of March 10, 2025
Illinois Barnes & Noble Ratifies Union Contract
03/07/2025
HarperCollins UK Unveils Glasgow Distribution Hub and Offices
Klopotek CEO Peter Karwowski Steps Down
Aparna Rishi to Lead Marketing Operations at HBG
03/06/2025
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists Announced
Firebrand Relaunches Online Analytics Tool
MMQ Makes Altman Partner, Changes Name to MMQA
03/05/2025
Mike Shoults Joins HBG US Distribution as COO
MacDowell Announces Spring-Summer 2025 Fellows
Maya Rutherford to Head Up Publicity at Scribner
Clarivate Extends Perpetual Purchase Program Through June 2026
03/04/2025
Summit to Publish Anthony Hopkins Memoir
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Meg Medina to Keynote LKBF Latinx Storytellers Conference
Off Limits Press to Close in June
Quarto, SVA to Launch Series of Books on Branding
03/03/2025
Industry Veterans Launch New Publishing Service Company
Amanda Luedeke to Helm MacGregor & Luedeke
Distribution Deals for the Week of March 3, 2025
02/28/2025
IPA Announces New Appointments to Key Committees
Forum to Publish Alaska Senator’s Debut Book
02/27/2025
Kathryn Belden, Stu Smith Up at Scribner
Staff Changes at BookBrunch
U.S. Senator Presses FTC Over Digital Purchases
Bowker Teams with ABA’s IndieCommerce
‘Hunger Games’ Stage Play to Open in London
02/26/2025
Society of Illustrators Receives NYC Cultural Development Fund Grant
Penguin Press to Publish Biden Exposé by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
Comic Arts Fest to Launch in March
New Digital Comics Store to Launch This Summer
02/25/2025
Dark Horse Digital Has Shut Down
Chip MacGregor, Ned Clements Join Whitaker House
Kelly Sonnack to Helm Andrea Brown Literary Agency
S&S Joins Batch for Books
Colleen Lawrie to Join Bloomsbury US as Editorial Director of Nonfiction
02/24/2025
Distribution Deals for the Week of February 24, 2025
02/20/2025
Monica Shah to Lead Children’s Sales at HarperCollins
Kristin Lang Named Head of Global Audible Books Acquisitions
02/19/2025
Tim McCall Promoted to SVP at IPG
2025 BolognaRagazzi, CrossMedia Award Winners Announced
Bonnier UK Names Sarah Benton, Jonathan Perdoni Joint CEOs
02/18/2025
Parisa Ebrahimi Joins Riverhead as VP, Executive Editor
Gloria Bailey Wins London Book Fair 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award
02/14/2025
PEN America to Honor Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Yaged
Little, Brown to Publish 20th Anniversary ‘Twilight’ Special Editions
02/13/2025
Giada Scodellaro Wins 2024 Novel Prize
Arndell Acquires Print Rights to T L Swan's Miles High Club Series
02/12/2025
Anne Marie Tallberg, Laura Clark Up at St. Martin’s
HBG Joins Batch for Books
Books Across Borders Announces Spring 2025 Fellows, 2025-2026 Apps
02/11/2025
Doubleday to Publish Memoir by Margaret Atwood
02/10/2025
Distribution Deals for the Week of February 10, 2025
New Ownership for Denver’s Second Star to the Right
02/07/2025
B&N to Open Three New Stores Next Week
Knopf to Publish New Ian McEwan Novel
New Voices New Rooms 2025 Set for August in Atlanta
02/06/2025
Cyrus Kheradi Promoted to EVP at PRH
Open Road Had ‘Unprecedented Growth’ in 2024
Spotify Adds Audiobooks from Podium, Crooked Lane
The U.S. Book Show Returns on June 3 in New York City
Meagan Levinson Named Editor-in-Chief of PublicAffairs
02/05/2025
Sara Munjack Joins HBG as Director of DEI
Brian Murray Elected AAP Chair
Knopf to Publish New Nonfiction by Joan Didion
02/04/2025
Hoopla Expands Partnership with Cineverse
Hoopla Expands Partnership with Cineverse
02/03/2025
Derek Stordahl to Depart Walker Books Group
Binc Awards ComicsPRO Scholarships to Four Comics Retailers
Steve Piersanti, Kristen Frantz Up at Berrett-Koehler
Distribution Deals for the Week of February 3, 2025
Portugal Launches Library E-book Lending Platform
01/30/2025
Denise Oswald Promoted to VP, Editor-in-Chief of Pantheon
Cynthia Lasky Promoted to EVP, Group Sales Director at Random House, Crown
NetGalley Launches In-Browser Reader
Mysterious Press to Publish Nonfiction Collection from Lee Child
01/29/2025
Doubleday Picks Up Dan Brown’s Next Robert Langdon Novel
B&N Revamps Buying, Campaign Teams
Two Lines Partners with Peirene Press on Stevns Translation Prize
01/28/2025
Paradigm to Digitize American Philosophical Society Backlist
Harper to Publish New Novel by Mitch Albom
Antony Blinken Brings a Memoir to Crown
Authors Against Book Bans to Host Town Hall for Publishing Professionals
01/27/2025
John Morgan Joins GCP as Executive Editor
Distribution Deals for the Week of January 27, 2025
Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon to Leave Boom! Studios
01/23/2025
Leila Campoli Joins Calligraph as Principal Agent
01/22/2025
Maggie Thompson, Leticia Vila-Sanjuan Up at Maria B. Campbell
Samantha Smith Joins LB as VP, Publisher for James Patterson
2025 Audie Award Nominees Announced
01/21/2025
CLMP Awards Grants to 35 Former SPD Clients
Maryland Court Approves Diamond Debtor-in-Possession Refinancing
Distribution Deals for the Week of January 20, 2025
Michael Taeckens Joins MMQ as Literary Agent
01/17/2025
Distribution Deals for the Week of January 13, 2025
Tokyopop Pitches in $10K to Binc’s L.A. Wildfire Relief
01/16/2025
Hoopla Partners with Solus on Library App
RBMedia to Publish All-New Audio Editions of Outlander Series
01/15/2025
Jeannette Seaver Leaves Arcade, Hangs Own Shingle
David Shelley, James Daunt Headline 2025 London Book Fair Seminar Program
01/14/2025
Hilary Redmon Named VP, Editorial Director of Nonfiction at Knopf
NEA, NEH Announce Grants for Literary Arts Orgs, Book Projects
Jacq Cohen Heads to Abrams
01/13/2025
Two HarperCollins Imprints Name New Editorial Directors
Apps Open for Binc Scholarship to 2025 Denver Publishing Institute
Ibram X. Kendi, Imani Perry to Headline Inaugural Zora Neale Hurston Summit
Laura Lippmann, John Sandford Named 2025 MWA Grand Masters
TCAF Moves to Toronto Metropolitan University
Second Story Press Changes Ownership
01/10/2025
Arc Collective Launches Literary Division
Bookshop.org Pledges $10K to Support Binc’s Wildfire Relief
Ada Limón, Eleanor Wilner Join Academy of American Poets Board
01/08/2025
Abrams Names New People Chief
Distribution Deals for the Week of January 6, 2025
01/07/2025
BTPS to Distribute Guideposts
Macmillan to Distribute Darrington Press
Little Free Library Celebrates 200,000th Book Box
St. Martin's Tweaks Editorial Structure
01/06/2025
Nectar Literary Shutters
UTP to Distribute SUNY Press in Canada
Matt Godzieba Promoted at PRH Publisher Services
Michael Pietsch Sends Farewell Note
Binc Names Three New Board Members
IPC Promotes Indie Press Month With Display Contest
01/02/2025
S&S to Distribute Big City Press

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