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12/23/2024

12/20/2024

12/17/2024

Abrams Announces Sales Promotions, Changes

Monica Shah (l.) has been appointed VP of sales and sales operations and Liz Frew has been named director of mass merch retail and children's sales strategy, among a series of other changes to the department's top brass.

12/16/2024

12/13/2024

Hawthornden Foundation Partners with 'Lapham's Quarterly'

The literary nonprofit, founded by former 'Paris Review' publisher and Ecco cofounder Drue Heinz, has offered a lifeline to the journal, which was put on hiatus last year due to financial woes, by taking over the lease for the 'Lapham's' office space.

12/12/2024

Black List Unveils Inaugural Book-to-Screen Adaptation Survey

As part of its foray into fiction, the Black List surveyed 84 book editors and literary agents about the novels they would most like to see adapted into film and television, releasing a 61-title list of the books that garnered multiple mentions.

12/11/2024

12/10/2024

Vivendi Spinoff Completed

Vivendi shareholders gave their overwhelming support to the plan by the French conglomerate to break the company up into discrete parts that include the Louise Hachette Group, which will house Vivendi’s book publishing holdings.

12/10/2024

Rebind Expands Library of Experts

The AI-powered enhanced e-book company focused on classic literature has added four new titles with commentaries from Roxane Gay, Bill McKibben, Deb Olin Unferth, and Sadie Stein.

12/10/2024

Chronicle Expands Its Sales Leadership Team

Chronicle announced that Jenny Goodman Abrami will be its executive editor of global sales and Amanda Weirich will take on a position as director of international sales and subsidiary rights.

12/10/2024

12/09/2024

PEN America Hit with Hoax Alleging Support for BDS Movement

The organization clarified that a December 9 press release purporting to be from the free speech nonprofit stating that PEN endorsed “the academic and cultural boycott of Israel” known as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement was a hoax.

12/09/2024

Ruoxi Chen Joins Putnam as Executive Editor

At Putnam, two-time Hugo Award–winning editor and 2022 PW Star Watch superstar Ruoxi Chen will serve as executive editor, with a focus on acquiring crossover fantasy, romantasy, and sci-fi.

12/06/2024

HBG Launches ‘Raising Readers’ Initiative

The brainchild of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers president and publisher Megan Tingley, the initiative will add a page in the back of Hachette's adult titles talking about the value of fostering a lifelong habit of reading.

12/05/2024

Lerner to Distribute Beetle Books

Lerner Publisher Services will soon be the exclusive distributor of Beetle Books, an imprint of the U.K.-based publisher Hungry Tomato, in the U.S. and Canada. Beetle Books joins the rest of Hungry Tomato's imprints already distributed by Lerner.

12/05/2024

CrimeFest to End After 16 Years

The U.K.-based crime fiction convention, held annually in Bristol, will cease after 2025. The final iteration will take place May 15–18.

12/04/2024

12/02/2024

Human Kinetics Acquires Lotus Publishing

The Champaign, Ill.–based trade and academic publisher focused on physical activity and health will absorb Lotus's roughly 50-title backlist under a new imprint, Lotus Books.

12/02/2024

11/27/2024

Microcosm to Distribute Thornapple

Microcosm Publishing will become the new worldwide distributor, excluding Canada, for Victoria, B.C–based publisher Thornapple Press, effective April 1, 2025.

11/27/2024

11/26/2024

11/25/2024

11/22/2024

Spotify Now Offers Bloomsbury Audiobooks

Bloomsbury is making its audiobook catalog—including titles by Sarah J. Maas—available through Spotify's Premium subscription service in six English-language markets.

11/21/2024

Ingram’s David Taylor to Retire in 2025

Taylor, SVP of international content acquisition for the Ingram Content Group, will retire in June 2025, after a career that started as a bookseller at Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford, England, in 1983.

11/20/2024

Joseph Mercola Launches Joy House Publishing

Dr. Joseph Mercola has launched Joy House Publishing, a new small press that aims to "make cutting-edge health information accessible to an ever-growing global audience." The press, distributed by Simon & Schuster, plans to publish 12 books a year.

11/19/2024

Mariner to Publish White House Photography of Kamala Harris

'Kamala Harris: Selections from the Official White House Photography,' to be published by the HarperCollins imprint on December 10, will include more than 200 photographs of Harris as vice president of the United States and during her bid for president.

11/19/2024

S&S Audio, Lemonada Team on New Podcast

'Your Next Listen,' from Simon & Schuster Audio and Lemonada Media, is a weekly podcast series that features full-chapter excerpts of S&S audiobooks. Earlier this year, Lemonada launched its own publishing imprint at S&S.

11/19/2024

IBPA to Hold Membership Vote on Proposed Merger with PubWest

The boards of directors at the Independent Book Publishers Association and Publishers Association of the West have voted to approve the merger of the two organizations. Special elections will be held on Nov. 13 and 19 at PubWest and IBPA, respectively.

11/18/2024

HarperCollins Inks AI Licensing Deal for Nonfiction Books

A new licensing agreement between HarperCollins and an undisclosed AI company will “allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models to improve model quality and performance,” per a company statement.

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