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NDP Scores with NBA’s New Direction
The National Book Foundation’s new National Book Award for Translated Literature made a real difference for New Directions Publishing, whose book 'The Emissary,' written by Yoko Tawada and translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, won the inaugural prize.
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GalleyMatch Offers A New Dating Service for Publishers and Book Clubs
Authors Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp have launched GalleyMatch, a matchmaking program that gets galleys into the hands of book clubs directly from publishers.
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HMH Trade Forms Audiobook Unit
The newly formed HMH Audio will release its first titles this fall and plans to release 75 titles annually drawn from its adult and young reader lists.
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Lethem Teams with Bill Henderson for Reprint Series
Bill Henderson, founder of the Pushcart Press and the Pushcart Prize, has teamed with novelist Jonathan Lethem to start Lethem’s Legends, a series that will reprint selected out-of-print works.
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Beacon Nabs New Book by Its Fastest-Selling Author
Beacon Press has announced plans to release a new work by Robin DiAngelo, whose 2018 book 'White Fragility' has become the fastest-selling book in the house's history.
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Amazon Scraps HQ2 Plans for LIC
Amazon will no longer build a headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, following grassroots resistance from New Yorkers and adverse reactions from some lawmakers and unions.
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Baseball Hall Swings for the Bookshelves
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., has partnered with Valerie Tomaselli and MTM Publishing "to develop its own books and place them in the publishing marketplace."
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Verso to Debut New Fiction Line in Fall 2019
Verso Books, an independent publisher of works on radical politics, is launching Verso Fiction, a new imprint focused on translated fiction that will release its first two titles in the fall of 2019.
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Callaway Makes Sure You'll Remember Its Books
Remember Madonna’s 'Sex,' the 1992 succès de scandale that shook the publishing world? Or the Miss Spider books, TV series, and app? Both, and more, are the brainchildren of Nicholas Callaway, founder and CEO of Callaway Arts & Entertainment, which turns 40 this year.
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Open Road Finds A New Path
The publisher, pivoting its business strategy, is devoting more resources to promoting e-book editions of backlist titles from other publishers.
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Vivendi Buys Editis
The French media giant adds the second-largest French-language publishing group to its portfolio.
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What Will Happen to Dan Mallory?
William Morrow is standing by Dan Mallory, author of the bestseller 'The Woman in the Window,' after a 'New Yorker' article detailed how he repeatedly lied to colleagues and superiors for years as he rose up the ranks in publishing.
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Vintage Español Is Bringing Basque Noir to the U.S.
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, born in Victoria, Spain, burst onto the crime fiction scene with the publication of "El silencio de la ciudad blanca" (The silence of the white city) in 2016.
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Otto Penzler, Pegasus Books Team to Launch Suspense Imprint
Penzler Publishing and Pegasus Books are partnering to launch Scarlet, a joint publishing venture that will publish works of psychological suspense aimed at female readers.
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HMH Trade in Realignment
An HMH spokesperson said the realignment included "a limited set of position eliminations, as well as the creation of new roles to meet our business goals."
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RH Names Combined Teams in Several Departments
Random House took more steps to streamline its operations since its merger with Crown, naming new combined teams for the public relations and marketing; art; and finance, subsidiary rights, and publishing operations departments.
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PRH Closing Spiegel & Grau Imprint
After nearly 14 years of publishing, Spiegel & Grau, the celebrated imprint launched by successful editors Cindy Spiegel & Julie Grau, is being shuttered. With the closure, the imprint's eponymous founders are leaving Penguin Random House.
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Jay Asher Sues SCBWI for Defamation
The 'Thirteen Reasons Why' author has filed a lawsuit against the Society of Children’s Book Writers, as well as the group’s executive director, Lin Oliver, over their allegations of sexual harassment.
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Amazon Publishing Launches Amazon Crossing Kids
The new imprint will publish English-language translations of picture books from around the world.
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Wattpad Launches Publishing Division
Wattpad Books will be headed by Ashleigh Gardner and its first list, to be released this fall, will feature six young adult titles.
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