Macmillan Lays Off Some Staff, Temporarily Cuts Some Salaries

Macmillan Publishers has laid off an undisclosed number of employees across all divisions, temporarily reduced pay for select employees, and implemented a hiring freeze, effective today. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie bookshop David's bought by staff

David’s Bookshop in Hertfordshire has been bought by its staff and remodelled as a John Lewis-style employee ownership trust. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-01 19:30:47 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster’s Mary Trump Book Temporarily Blocked by Restraining Order

Simon & Schuster chief Jonathan Karp asserts the right to publish and attests that the house is unaware of impediments to Mary Trump publishing her book. The post Simon & Schuster’s Mary Trump Book Temporarily Blocked by Restraining Order appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-07-01 13:49:34 UTC ]
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Waterstones Covent Garden and Leadenhall temporarily closed

Waterstones' London stores in Covent Garden and Leadenhall are temporarily closed. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-26 08:36:24 UTC ]
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Diversity: Macmillan USA Makes Major Changes in Management Approach

To make the company ' more representative of the world around us,' CEO John Sargent writes, Macmillan USA is establishing a new management committee. The post Diversity: Macmillan USA Makes Major Changes in Management Approach appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-06-22 20:55:22 UTC ]
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Macmillan US sets up inclusive management team as Sargent steps back

Macmillan Publishing in the US is setting up a new 13-member committee to run the company, with c.e.o. John Sargent stepping back from day-to-day management “to make room for new voices”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-22 17:16:31 UTC ]
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Macmillan Forms Trade Management Committee to Address 'Key Issues'

Macmillan's trade group has formed a 13-member management committee aimed at bringing more diversity to setting priorities for the company's trade publishing divisions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins brings back all furloughed staff

HarperCollins UK has brought back all the staff it placed on furlough at the start of lockdown and will pay all their salaries itself rather than claiming it back from the government, the company has announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-22 02:30:13 UTC ]
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Hachette moves to back Rowling after staff raise concerns

Staff at Hachette working on J K Rowling's new book The Ickabog have threatened to down tools over the author's recent comments affecting the transgender community. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-16 07:05:23 UTC ]
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The Sun and Times publisher warns of job cuts due to coronavirus

CEO of News UK, Rebekah Brooks, tells staff pandemic has hammered print sales and advertising revenueThe publisher of the Sun and the Times has warned of impending job losses as part of a major cost-cutting programme as the coronavirus pandemic hammers newspaper sales and advertising... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-06-11 12:06:20 UTC ]
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News Corp Cuts More Jobs, This Time at Its Metropolitan Newspapers

News Corp has made more job cuts, this time to its metropolitan mastheads, as the company again signals it is Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2020-06-09 21:44:49 UTC ]
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News Corp cuts more jobs, this time at its metropolitan newspapers

Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph and Australian newsrooms to be reshaped as the company moves away from print to focus on digitalNews Corp has made more job cuts, this time to its metropolitan mastheads, as the company again signals it is moving away from print to become “much more focused on... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-06-09 09:47:40 UTC ]
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#PublishingPaidMe lays advances bare

Writers including Malorie Blackman and Nikesh Shukla have urged writers of colour not to give up and that their stories matter, as the #PublishingPaidMe hashtag took off over the weekend to illustrate the disparity between the advances paid by publishers to non-Black authors versus Black authors. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-08 10:07:04 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children's pre-empts Norse Gods adventure series

Macmillan's Children's Books has pre-empted a middle-grade trilogy by debut author Cat Weldon, set in the world of the Norse gods.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-08 07:23:35 UTC ]
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Blackwell’s staff have lost our shops - but we leave with heads held high

On the 1st of June, the day thousands of pupils returned to school as part of the government’s plan to end lockdown, I received a call from my manager. As a bookseller with Blackwell’s, I had been glad when we shut our doors in March to protect the health of our staff and customers. I imagined... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-04 02:42:56 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster and Macmillan US also pull out of Frankfurt

Simon & Schuster and Macmillan US have followed HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan in announcing that they will not attend this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-01 09:13:28 UTC ]
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News Corp Australia to Cut ‘Up to a Third of Workforce’ in Move Towards Digital-Only Publishing

News Corp Australia is poised to cut hundreds of jobs as it moves towards digital-only publishing for many of its Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2020-05-27 14:51:01 UTC ]
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News Corp to cut hundreds of jobs in move towards digital-only publishing

Publisher of the Australian, the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun is expected to stop publishing as many as 100 titles News Corp Australia is poised to cut hundreds of jobs as it moves towards digital-only publishing for many of its local and regional papers and more copy sharing among its... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-05-27 10:53:51 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan lands Hannah novel in six-figure deal

Pan Macmillan has landed Kristin Hannah's new novel in a six-figure deal ahead of the Netflix series of her book Firefly Lane (Pan). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-26 08:06:35 UTC ]
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Cuts at The Atlantic Set Off Alarm Bells for the Industry

Even as layoffs, pay cuts and indefinite furloughs become an almost daily occurrence in the media industry, news about such developments grows no less tragic and alarming. Such was the case Thursday morning, when Atlantic Media chairman David Bradley revealed in a staff memo that, despite... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2020-05-21 16:30:08 UTC ]
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Macmillan Launches Indie Bookstore Assistance Program

Macmillan Publishers will issue promotional terms intended to help independent bookstores recover from what it calls "the significant and calamitous impacts of Covid-19 on the channel." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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