People want stories and that means cultivating a publishing ecosystem where big and small can flourishThis week both the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the Department of Justice in the US announced investigations into the planned $2.2bn acquisition of the publisher Simon & Schuster by Bertelsmann, which already owns Penguin Random House. The merger, if allowed, would see Bertelsmann have almost one-third of English-language book sales. The move follows a year when a population cocooned at home, reaching for comfort reading, inflated the profits of big publishers. Bloomsbury and Pan Macmillan recently announced that they would be returning furlough payments; HarperCollins did not take them.Many of the UK’s smaller publishers fared rather differently: a Bookseller survey last summer found 60% feared they would cease to exist by autumn. Indies tend not to have the backlists full of household names that, say, a Penguin has; they depend far more on serendipity, on a customer wandering into a shop intending to buy one thing but coming out with something else as well. This happens far less with online shopping; at least one publisher lost up to 90% in sales. Some also found it difficult to qualify for furlough. They took to social media to announce their plight, or to try new selling tactics; some crowdfunded; some received emergency Arts Council England cash. Many were dragged back from the brink, for which we should be grateful. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2021-03-28 17:25:47 UTC ]
The HarperCollins division is eliminating its Canary Street Press and Graydon House imprints and incorporating existing titles into Hanover Square Press, MIRA Books, and Park Row Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Mexican Writer Guadalupe Nettel to Headline Puterbaugh Festival at OU, by the Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Mon, 01/13/2025 - 09:20 Author photo by Germán NájeraThe 2025 Puterbaugh Lit Fest will return to the University of... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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In a new year's rollout of Dutch-market buys, HarperCollins Holland names four Gottmer imprints being acquired in the Netherlands. The post HarperCollins Holland: Acquiring Four Gottmer Imprints appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2025-01-08 04:40:03 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Holland has agreed to acquire four lifestyle imprints from Gottmer Uitgevers Groep, including Becht (cookbooks and eco-friendly lifestyle), Altamira (mind, body, and spirit), Dominicus (travel guides), and Hollandia (water sports). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The founder and CEO of Bloomsbury Publishing has made no secret of his desire to expand in the U.S., and he succeeded extraordinarily in advancing that aim this year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
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White Nights, the author’s 1848 novella, sounds an unlikely candidate to go viral, but the story of lovelorn loneliness is now a favourite among TikTok and Instagram usersBeing popular on TikTok can make just about anything fly off the shelves, from beauty products to cucumbers, which became one... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-12-17 17:45:43 UTC ]
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The author will serve as editor-at-large of Monument Books, helping to find authors that champion ‘ideas, stories and culture, as well as uplifting or refashioning past legacies’Reni Eddo-Lodge, the author of the 2017 bestseller Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has launched... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-12-16 17:04:41 UTC ]
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HarperPop “will partner with high-profile brands and personalities to craft unique books for their fans and communities” under a new imprint to be overseen by executives from HarperCollins Children's Books and Morrow’s Dey Street Books imprint. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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A leader in lifestyle and guidebook publishing in Germany, Hamburg's Gräfe und Unzer is being acquired by Verlagsgruppe HarperCollins. The post Verlagsgruppe HarperCollins To Acquire Gräfe und Unzer appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-11-26 02:39:03 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Opens an Audiobook Distribution Agreement With Spotify The post Bloomsbury Opens an Audiobook Distribution Agreement With Spotify appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-11-22 22:27:19 UTC ]
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Activist investor Starboard Value had challenged ownership structure, as Murdoch family controls 41% of company votesLachlan Murdoch faced down a shareholder vote on Wednesday aimed at weakening the Murdoch family’s control over their media empire.The activist investor Starboard Value had... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-11-20 18:57:31 UTC ]
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Some nonfiction backlist titles will be used to train artificial intelligence with authors’ permissionPublisher HarperCollins will allow some of its titles to be used to train AI models, with the permission of authors.The company “has reached an agreement with an artificial intelligence... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-11-19 16:24:59 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has become the first Big Five publisher to strike an AI licensing deal, which authors and agents appear to be approaching with caution, skepticism, and a measure of hope. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller has selected six books for their 46th annual Diagram Prize shortlist for The Oddest Book Title of the Year, a prize they’ve been awarding since 1978. (According to Sarah Lyall, the prize began “as a way for Bruce Robertson, co-founder of the Diagram Group, an information and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-18 19:09:25 UTC ]
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Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and eat. Continue reading at The New York Times
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