Knopf Doubleday Puts Anchor on the Back Shelf as Suzanne Herz Takes a Buyout

Vintage/Anchor publisher Suzanne Herz will leave Penguin Random House in December. Anchor Books will gradually be phased out, starting with its hardcover program next January, with its 16,000-strong paperback backlist slated to move over to Vintage over time. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #anchor books #penguin random house

Other news stories related to: "Knopf Doubleday Puts Anchor on the Back Shelf as Suzanne Herz Takes a Buyout"


BuzzFeed shares soar as Vivek Ramaswamy takes activist stake

BuzzFeed shares soared early Wednesday after the entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy reported a stake in the online media company and asked for talks with the board.Ramaswamy, who ended his candidacy in January and threw his support behind Donald Trump, has taken a... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2024-05-22 14:46:15 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #hearst #pop culture #political campaign #latest move #presidential run #exchange commission


Amazon's Kindle Scribe dips back to an all-time low, plus the rest of this week's best tech deals

Apple and Google recently held events to showcase new products and services. From a deals perspective, that means some older iPads are hitting new low prices — we even spotted a few modest $30 and $50 discounts on brand new iPad Air and iPad Pro models. Google's latest smartphone, the Pixel 8a,... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2024-05-17 16:39:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #kindle #follow @engadgetdeals #buying advice #kindle scribe #pixel 8a #ipad air #all-time low #tech deals


OpenAI strikes deal to put Reddit posts in ChatGPT

OpenAI and Reddit announced a partnership on Thursday that will allow OpenAI to surface Reddit discussions in ChatGPT and for Reddit to bring AI-powered features to its users. The partnership will “enable OpenAI’s tools to better understand and showcase Reddit content, especially on recent... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2024-05-16 22:41:33 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #german publisher #die welt #business insider #dotdash meredith #run ads #joint statement #real time


Mary Beth Thomas Out as HarperCollins Offers Sales Buyouts

Mary Beth Thomas, the v-p and director of independent retail sales at HarperCollins, has left the company, PW can confirm. In addition, HarperCollins is offering a voluntary buyout program for salespeople, according to a person familiar with the matter. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #harpercollins #person familiar


I’m putting together a book heist crew.

Last week over 100 cops from the EU’s police agency fanned out over Georgia and Latvia to bust a group of criminals who stole around 170 antique books from libraries across Europe. Over two years, the gang is suspected in the robbery of “rare books mainly written by Russian writers—including... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-04-30 17:42:09 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #libraries #rare books


A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back | Letters

Readers share their tips on discovering new authors and reading more widelyIn addition to the excellent advice provided in your article on reading (The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books, 25 April), I would add the following. The old adage of not judging... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-04-28 16:39:44 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #small publisher #paperback #olga tokarczuk #svetlana alexievich #annie ernaux #fitzcarraldo editions #brilliant books


The '90s called. They want their books back

When the graphic novel remake of Ann M. Martin's book Claudia and the Bad Joke was the best-selling kids book in Canada earlier this month, it was time for bookworms to feel their hearts flutter with nostalgia. The original, part of the wildly popular The Baby-Sitters Club series, was published... Continue reading at CBC

[ CBC | 2024-04-26 08:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #graphic novel #bad joke


Adams' $112B budget takes sunny view but rebuffs council push for more money

Mayor Eric Adams announced a revised $111.6 billion budget plan on Wednesday that avoids new spending cuts and increases estimates of the city’s tax haul, reflecting his administration’s increasingly sunny view of New York’s finances. But the proposal rebuffs the City Council’s request to undo... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2024-04-24 16:53:57 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #libraries #federal aid #told reporters #slightly higher


NY1 anchor focuses on learning new things to stay sharp onscreen

More than 30 years ago Annika Pergament drove up the coast, starting in Florida, in search of her first journalism job after graduate school—her trunk filled with tapes of herself as a news anchor. She landed a gig in television news just several hundred miles later."I hit every news station on... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2024-04-23 20:44:42 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #time warner #past january #gossip girl #television series #lower manhattan


PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

PEN America has faced an enormous amount of criticism from the literary world for, among other things, failing to call Israel’s six-month assault on Gaza a genocide, and is now facing a wave of withdrawals from two of its signature events, the literary awards and the World Voices Festival. In... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-04-18 14:26:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #literary world #literary awards #enormous amount #pen america


Canada’s Indigo Bookstore Chain Agrees to a Buyout Offer

The buyout offer is expected to close in June, when Indigo will be removed from Toronto's stock market, the company going private. The post Canada’s Indigo Bookstore Chain Agrees to a Buyout Offer appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-04-03 21:44:05 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #bookstore chain #stock market #buyout offer #post canada


Indigo Agrees to Buyout Offer

Indigo Books & Music, Canada's troubled largest bookseller, has agreed to accept an offer of C$2.50 per share from two investment firms that will take the company private should the transaction be approved by shareholders later this spring. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #company private #buyout offer


AAP Preliminary Report Puts Religion Book Sales up 7.8% in 2023

Sales of religious books at companies that report results to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program rose 7.8% last year over 2022, hitting $819.7 million. It was the largest increase among all publishing categories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #religion book #publishing categories #american publishers #report results #religious books


China’s Book Industry in 2023: Back in the Black

The Chinese book market in 2023 went from negative to positive in its growth metrics, thanks in part to a fast rise in short-video book promotion. The post China’s Book Industry in 2023: Back in the Black appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-03-28 19:35:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #book industry #book market #post china


Shelf Life Books in Richmond Unionizes

Workers at Shelf Life Books in Richmond, Va., have joined the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400 Union, making them the first booksellers in the city to unionize. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:


Panel Mania: 'Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape' by Sam Nakahira

Sam Nakahira’s 'Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape' is a diligent and charmingly illustrated graphic biography chronicling the life and creative career of the celebrated Japanese American sculptor. A 10-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #10-page excerpt


Claire Messud Puts Her Soul on the Page

The author’s latest novel, This Strange Eventful History (Norton, May), chronicles three generations of a pied-noir family—and much of her own family history. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #family history


Bring Back the Big, Comfortable Bookstore Reading Chair

This was a regular feature of my childhood, though it feels so long ago and far away, conceptually as well as literally, that I nearly forgot it ever happened: I’d go into town to the mall with my mom, and she’d drop me at the doors of the Borders or Barnes and Noble while she […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-02-19 09:55:59 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #bookstore #barnes #long ago #bring back


The Barefoot Memoirist: Ina Garten Takes Her Story to a New Publisher

Garten, the Food Network star and best-selling cookbook author, has moved her highly anticipated fall autobiography from Celadon to Crown. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2024-02-15 22:42:34 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #cookbook


Can We Please Put an End to Overperformed Audibooks?

Britney Spears is perfect and her nasal voice with a Southern accent and just the right touch of vocal fry is perfect. Which is why I was so surprised to hear Michelle Williams, an actress who is also perfect, read the audio version of Britney’s memoir with a bit of a drawl but mostly very […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-02-15 09:55:31 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #memoir #audio version #britney spears