The Charleston, S.C.–based publisher, which specializes in nonfiction books of local interest and regional history, laid off an unspecified number of employees last week. A source, who asked to remain anonymous, told PW that the number was 16, across multiple departments. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Trexler, interim director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, told PW that the book bans happening across the country were a topic of much conversation at San Diego Comic-Con. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Billing WEbook as a digital “slush pile,” Ardy Khazaei, its former president, told PW in 2009 that the Web site aimed to match agents with the kinds of manuscripts they were looking to represent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gooseberry Patch, originally founded in 1984 as a mail-order catalogue company selling old-fashioned, country-style products, began publishing cookbooks in 1992, but the Delaware, Ohio, company almost didn’t make it through the Great Recession. “Gooseberry Patch ran headlong into the economic... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hugh Howey has not quite broken out in the way recent self-publishing superstars like Amanda Hocking and John Locke have, but his sales record has made New York publishing houses take notice. Best known among his avid fan base for Wool, his five-part science fiction series, Howey estimates that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although Dennis Abboud has not been directly involved with Levy Home Entertainment for more than a decade, the new owner of the book distributor said he kept a close eye on the company. Levy has always been very well run. Its very sound operationally, he told PW. Abboud plans to build on that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]