This year, we asked our readers to tell us who they think are some of the industry’s most valuable players. Here’s what some of them wrote. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House US CEO McIntosh’s biggest move came in mid-October, when she announced the merger of the Crown Publishing Group and the Random House Publishing Group. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Educational Development Corp. posted sales of $32.5 million in fiscal 2015, with earnings of under $1 million. By fiscal 2018, revenue had soared to $112 million and profits topped $5 million, but Randall White acknowledges that EDC had lots of challenges in dealing with the explosive growth. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Moberg has worked in Christian publishing since 1975 and played a crucial role in bringing Thomas Nelson and Zondervan together under the HarperCollins Christian Publishing umbrella. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Well-Read Black Girl, a fast-growing literary community of black female book lovers founded by Glory Edim, began as an affectionate T-shirt conceived and executed by Edim’s boyfriend. “Well-Read Black Girl was a nickname he had for me,” Edim says. “It was sweet and creative.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shortly after the 'New York Times' and the 'New Yorker' jointly reported on the sexual abuse allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, a crowdsourced Google spreadsheet called Shitty Media Men began to circulate, particularly among women, in New York City media and publishing circles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The septuagenarian Canadian author has, this year, become a cultural icon, as well as Canada’s best-known author—and 'The Handmaid's Tale' has become a backlist sensation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lots of people have complained about the policies of the Trump administration, but Anderson, co-owner of Anderson’s Bookshops, is hoping to do something about them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Graywolf Press executive editor’s authors have had a remarkable run of being nominated for—and winning—some of literature's biggest awards, all the way up to the Nobel. It seems as if everything Shotts acquires turns to gold. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Griffith became CEO of the Follett Corp. in May 2015. Less than a year later, he oversaw the acquisition of Baker & Taylor. Now, under Griffith, Follett continues to zero in on new markets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
On October 21, just weeks after she was sworn in as the nation’s 14th librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden stunned observers by removing register of copyrights Maria Pallante. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Watching attacks against free speech mount in the Western Hemisphere, Suzanne Nossel will not sit idly by. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Lisa Lucas, the new executive director of the National Book Foundation, climbed on the podium at the National Book Awards ceremony in November, her presence and her remarks marked a change at the NBF. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following record revenue of over $182 million in 2015, Quarto posted an 8% sales increase in the first half of 2016 over the comparable period of 2015, and CEO Marcus Leaver is hopeful that the publisher will have a fourth straight year of sales increases in 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rupi Kaur, a Canadian poet, writer, and spoken-word artist, may only be 24 years old, with only one book published to date. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kickstarter, and crowdfunding in general, continues to transform the way small publishers and self-publishers secure funding for all types of book projects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Concerned that screen time is cannibalizing reading time? Consider this: 2015’s top-selling humor book for adults, per Nielsen BookScan, was written by a YouTube celebrity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s hard to point to an editor that has had a better run than Spiegel & Grau’s Chris Jackson. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
This July, Joyce Meskis began a two-year process of turning over the reins of the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver to married industry veterans Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
No publishing imprint had the kind of commercial and critical success in 2015 that Riverhead Books did. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]