Born under a mountain of debt in late 2007, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt forced its executives to spend as much time finding ways to keep the company financially afloat as publishing educational materials and trade and reference books. That is one reason why when HMH filed for Chapter 11 protection May 21 as part of its prepackaged bankruptcy process, the company, with sales in 2011 of $1.295 billion and adjusted EBITDA of $238 million, was roughly the same size as Houghton Mifflin in 2005 when it had sales of $1.28 billion. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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With sales of backlist and frontlist titles down, as well as a drop in ebook sales, revenue in HMH's trade division fell 15% In the second quarter ended June 30. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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A reappraisal of world history since 1850 is brought to life through the use of vividly colourised images. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One person suggested Amazon bookstores should replace public libraries. Readers disagreed. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is closing Eamon Dolan Books. With the shuttering of the imprint, which was formed in 2011, founding editor Eamon Dolan will be leaving HMH. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the late summer of 1941, as millions of Americans were debating whether to become involved in the war against Hitler, the journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote a celebrated essay for Harper's magazine. The title was Who Goes Nazi?, and Thompson explained that she had devised "a somewhat macabre... Continue reading at Stuff
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A graphic novelist who once had a fledgling Hollywood career was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the brutal torture killing of his fiancee — a murder prosecutors say took cues from a gory book he worked on years earlier. Blake Leibel, 37, was convicted last week of the 2016 slaying of... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The History Press has returned to profitability following a management buyout of the publisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot Key Books, part of Bonnier Zaffre, has acquired a graphic novel about 150 years of feminism. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Professor Peter Marshall of Warwick University has won the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize 2018 for Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Yale University Press)—a book seven years in the making, based on more than two decades of research. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BAFTA-winning broadcaster and television presenter Dan Snow is publishing On This Day in History with John Murray Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Superior Court Judge Peter Deddeh reached back in time as he pulled bits of San Diego history out of the narrow copper box. Newspapers, coins, stamps, government documents, history books, audio tapes and microfilm were among the contents. The time capsule had been sealed for nearly 56 years,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HMH attributed the sales rise in the first quarter of 2018 in part to higher print titles sales, but a change in the product mix of sales—last year HMH sold lots of 'The Handmaid's Tale' and '1984' ebooks—contributed to a slight rise in the quarterly net loss. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Their names are inked in history books and on the walls of hallowed concert halls as winners of American music’s most esteemed award, the Pulitzer Prize for music: Aaron Copland, George Crumb, John Luther Adams, Ornette Coleman, Caroline Shaw and dozens more. Add to that list the man nicknamed... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane and Yale University Press (YUP) both have two books apiece on the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize 2018 shortlist, which recognises and celebrates books which combine excellence in historical research with readability for a general audience. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters were awarded in the categories of fiction, history, biography poetry, and general nonfiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In August, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish 'The Fall of Gondolin' by J.R.R. Tolkien, the latest eponymous work by the legendary fantasy author. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An oral history project just launched in the U.K. to document the history of women in publishing has collected interviews with a pioneering generation of female book industry professionals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook published a blog post today detailing the changes it has made to how it manages users' data. You can read a broader summary of that report here, but among the new changes is a tweak to how Facebook collects and stores call and text history.... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has acquired a "major work of non-fiction" that examines how work has shaped human civilisation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Among the forgotten stories of the past century is that of the "wolf children" of Lithuania. It is the tragedy of children in East Prussia who were orphaned at the end of World War II and left to fend for themselves as the Red Army conquered the territory. On their own, they took to hiding in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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