Penguin Random House Children’s has appointed David Sprei to the new role of commercial director for Penguin Ventures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-11 17:43:56 UTC ]
A major move for women in leadership in the English-language book publishing markets, Prior moves from Penguin Random House UK to helm Pan Macmillan in London. The post Joanna Prior Succeeds Anthony Forbes Watson as Pan Macmillan CEO appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-09-30 13:15:15 UTC ]
Penguin Random House is offering enhanced two-day shipping for independent booksellers starting October 1 and running through March 1, 2022. The company is waiving the minimum-retail-value requirement for orders. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
Schemes provide mentors and funding to help aspiring writers on low incomes enter market dominated by white celebritiesA programme that aims to tackle the lack of diversity in children’s books has been launched after its founder said the practice of richer authors paying for support to get... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-09-26 06:15:04 UTC ]
Nine publishers including Hachette, Penguin Random House Children's and Nosy Crow have launched a manifesto committing themselves to increased empathy-building strategies over the next three years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-22 19:09:14 UTC ]
In a Zoom chat with agents, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle said that, following the approval of PRH's purchase of Simon & Schuster, editors at the two houses will be able to bid for the same book—even if they are the only publishers interested in the title. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
Launched a year ago in a collaboration between Penguin Random House and The Runnymede Trust, Lit in Colour seeks to make the books taught in classrooms more representative of modern life in Britain Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-17 18:08:18 UTC ]
Booming audiobook sales and strong performances in some of its largest markets boosted profits up 55.1% at Penguin Random House in the first six months of 2021. Revenue rose 10.9%, to €1.80 billion. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House US has paid tribute to 36-year-old vice-president Erika Seyfried, who died over the weekend. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-30 18:31:43 UTC ]
Penguin Random House surprised booksellers yesterday with the announcement that Amanda Gorman's forthcoming volume 'Call Us What We Carry' would be double the anticipated length, and that the price will be raised by $5. PRH said it will “honor the original price for all customers who pre-ordered... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House will require staff to wear masks “at all times and in all areas, including inside offices” in the US, but the firm's UK employees will follow a different policy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 05:32:23 UTC ]
Between CEO Elon Musk's often erratic antics, strident competition from existing industry titans, and a public that is still not fully sold on the idea of traveling via electrical charge, Tesla's road to prominence has not been a smooth one. But facing a federal investigation into its driver... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-08-21 15:00:52 UTC ]
The country music superstar has teamed up with the novelist James Patterson to write Run, Rose, Run, which will be published in MarchFirst globally successful entertainer, then heroic sponsor of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine, and now novelist … Dolly Parton seems determined to prove that there... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-11 16:27:28 UTC ]
Penguin Random House announced this morning that the upcoming collection of poetry by Amanda Gorman is now titled 'Call Us What We Carry.' It will be released on December 7, and will feature new works as well as her inauguration poem, 'The Hill We Climb.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
In late May, over the Memorial Day weekend, the top story on NBC’s Meet the Press was a recent vote by Republican senators to kill the prospect of an independent, fully bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. (Six Republicans backed the commission, but... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-26 12:44:33 UTC ]
Simon Akam says Penguin Random House cancelled his book about the British army, The Changing of the Guard, and demanded back his advance after he refused to let the MoD vet itIn the summer of 2015, journalist Simon Akam was thrilled when Penguin Random House (PRH) imprint William Heinemann won a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-23 13:00:54 UTC ]
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen and former President Barack Obama have written a book based on their podcast conversations, to be published globally by Penguin Random House in partnership with Higher Ground. The book chronicles, as Obama said in the book’s introduction, the men’s “shared... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-07-22 15:49:00 UTC ]
Last week, Guto Harri, an anchor on GB News, in the United Kingdom, addressed a pressing news story: the racist abuse that Black English players faced following the final of the European soccer championships, which England lost, and the broader debate around the players’ practice of taking a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-20 12:38:46 UTC ]
Penguin Random House said the book, tentatively coming in 2022, would be “an intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-07-19 20:26:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House announces book is expected in late 2022 with proceeds going to charityThe Duke of Sussex has agreed a publishing deal to write his memoirs and said he would do so “not as the prince I was born, but as the man I have become”.The global deal for his “literary memoir” was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-19 18:37:55 UTC ]