The Friday Project publisher Scott Pack is leaving HarperCollins to start a new business venture. Pack, who ran the Friday Project imprint as well as online author community Authonomy, will be leaving at the end of December. The Friday Project imprint, which was acquired by HarperCollins in April 2008 with a remit to publish innovative titles in experimental ways, will now be wound down, publishing titles currently on the schedule but with no further acquisitions. Authonomy will continue as before, being formally relaunched in the New Year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elise Burns is leaving Bloomsbury to join Bonnier Books UK as its new trade sales and export director. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-02 22:43:52 UTC ]
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HarperCollins’ Tom Killingbeck is joining Viking as editorial director as Jack Ramm leaves the PRH imprint to set up an editorial services company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 12:08:27 UTC ]
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Jamie Oliver’s Veg (Michael Joseph) has leapt straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 24,261 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 05:37:15 UTC ]
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The novella, "Special Topics in Loneliness Studies," is about a professor whose doomed class investigates loneliness through the syllabus. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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London indie Flame Tree Publishing has entered a "pioneering" co-publishing deal with Jiangsu Phoenix Literary and Art Publishing, a division of the leading Chinese publisher Phoenix Publishing and Media Group (PPMG). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-22 09:37:01 UTC ]
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“Fleabag” actor Andrew Scott has joined the cast for the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-21 01:32:35 UTC ]
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Publisher Kerry Enzor is leaving Quarto to lead a new Quercus imprint focused on international non-fiction originated entirely in-house. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-18 12:13:03 UTC ]
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HarperCollins’ global sales recorded a disappointing fourth quarter, down from $490m in 2018 to $419m in 2019, a decrease of 14%, for the three months ending 30th June. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-09 05:11:55 UTC ]
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PRH business Penguin Ventures has, in collaboration with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, announced the lead UK licensing partners for upcoming film "Peter Rabbit 2". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-08 21:31:55 UTC ]
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ormerly with Terre di mezzo and Mondadori, Giulia Rizzo moves to Harper Italia's children's division, credited with a 'fresh look and open mind.' The post HarperCollins Italia Names Rizzo to Lead Children’s; Mondadori-Reworld Deal Closes appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-01 21:05:58 UTC ]
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HarperCollins will publish a part-memoir, part-polemic book about the state of public discourse in Britain by former Biteback m.d. Iain Dale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-30 23:23:27 UTC ]
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An anniversary concert, books and other memorabilia try, once again, to capture a moment that’s passed. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-26 15:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins’ new digital division, One More Chapter, has snapped up the debut adult fiction title from bestselling YA author of The Kissing Booth, Beth Reekles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-25 16:36:10 UTC ]
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Audible has made great strides toward cornering the coveted Thirsty Parents market today by announcing that Fleabag‘s Hot Priest Andrew Scott will be narrating an audiobook collection of Beatrix Potter stories. Well played, Audible! I don’t have any children, but you better believe that my next... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 15:30:56 UTC ]
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Audible will next month release an audiobook collection of Beatrix Potter stories, narrated by Andrew Scott. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-25 10:58:57 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has revealed its gender pay gap figures nine months early with a largely unchanged balance sheet but with a new initiative which sees all new parents at the company given the opportunity to take 12 months off from next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-24 23:00:06 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children’s Books will republish a young fiction novel by Philippa Gregory about a princess called Florizella, this November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-24 14:49:10 UTC ]
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday has been named as this year’s winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award—a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding. The... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-22 16:21:37 UTC ]
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Though books have been supplying the movie and tv industries with storylines since the dawn of the talkie, the rise of streaming content over the last five years has created a desperate need for more (MORE we scream as we toggle endlessly after binge-worthy distraction from the hell of the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-17 14:53:33 UTC ]
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HarperCollins' Brian Murray says the new deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment responds to today's changes in 'the business of storytelling.' The post HarperCollins and Sony Pictures Entertainment in Major Elizabeth Gabler Partnership appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-07-15 20:00:26 UTC ]
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