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Brooklyn-based Restless Books Taps a World of Writing
As a nonprofit, Restless Books has become a haven for international literature and an advocate for immigrant writers.
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S&S Restructures Sales Group
In a memo to employees, Simon & Schuster senior v-p of sales Gary Urda outlined a new structure for the sales division that he said “will add a number of new positions to our selling efforts and leave us better positioned to accomplish our ambitious goals.”
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Rebecca Smart Named DK Managing Director
Rebecca Smart will join DK as its managing director in January after spending the last four years in the same position at Ebury Publishing, a nonfiction imprint of Penguin Random House UK.
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PRH, HeadCount Team to Launch Book the Vote
Penguin Random House and HeadCount, a nonpartisan voter registration organization, will launch Book the Vote, a companywide effort to encourage voter registration by using PRH authors and a variety of support materials.
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Broader List Spurs Growth at Belt Publishing
Five years after its launch as a regional press specializing in nonfiction books about the industrial Midwest, Belt Publishing is growing rapidly and diversifying its list.
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The Big Indie Books of Fall 2018
We took a long, hard look at the season’s offerings from independent and university presses, and, after consulting with PW’s reviews editors and booksellers, came up with a list of 20 books that readers won’t want to miss.
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Fact Finders: Spotlight on Kensington Nonfiction
Kensington is renewing its dedication to nonfiction with an expanded list and books on a wider array of topics. (Sponsored)
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Former 'NYRB' Editor Launches 'Book Post'
Ann Kjellberg, a longtime former contributing editor at the 'New York Review of Books,' has launched 'Book Post,' a subscription-based book review.
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Beacon Press Targets a Classic Title to Indie Booksellers
The publisher has created a new marketing effort that encourages indies to take a fresh look at Viktor Frankl’s 'Man’s Search for Meaning.'
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Running Press Continues on Its Own Path
As the Hachette division continues to grow, the publisher has announced a new imprint, RP Studio, which will focus on producing a range of gift items, including journals, notebooks, and postcard books, all drawn from bestselling RP books.
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Omarosa's 'Unhinged' Moves 33,483 Print Copies In First Week
Omarosa Manigault Newman's 'Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House'—the second White House tell-all this year whose publication President Donald Trump has attempted to stymie—sold 33,484 copies in its first week on sale at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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NCAC, Authors Guild Slam Trump's S&S Litigation Threats
Following one more threat of litigation from President Donald Trump against a major book publisher, free speech and book industry organizations have condemned the president's attempts to cease publication of books unfavorable to his administration.
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Trade Remained Publishing’s Brightest Spot in 2017
Trade sales have grown steadily over the last five years—even as other major segments continue to have their struggles.
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Trump, Fighting Omarosa, Fixes His Gaze on S&S
Months after President Donald Trump's lawyers slapped Macmillan with a cease-and-desist letter in advance of the publication of Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury,' the president has done the same to Simon & Schuster and Omarosa Manigault Newman's 'Unhinged.'
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BenBella Partners with Bestselling Author on E-Series
Author Gwen Cooper has teamed up with BenBella Books to launch a subscription series of Cooper’s cat-centric short stories that will culminate with BenBella publishing a print edition of the collection in November.
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Reverberations Continue in Donadio & Olson Embezzlement Scandal
A lawyer for a handful of authors is interested in putting together a class action lawsuit—and cleaning up a multimillion-dollar mess.
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With 'Anniversaries,' NYRB Brings Behemoth of a German Novel Into English
This fall, New York Review Books is trying its hand at something bigger—literally—in the form of Uwe Johnson's 1,800-page masterpiece. Here's how they did it.
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Seven Stories Has New Indie Bookseller Promotion
Seven Stories Press has started a new monthly marketing program that it hopes addresses independent booksellers’ concerns about publishers’ direct-to consumer pricing policies.
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Lependorf to Leave CLMP After 17 Years
The search for a replacement for Jeffrey Lependorf, who is taking a position as executive director of the Flow Chart Foundation in Hudson, N.Y., is currently underway.
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Canongate Launches New Crime Imprint
U.K. publisher Canongate is launching Black Thorn, a new crime fiction imprint. Black Thorn will release two titles per month, starting in May next year.
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