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Sales, Earnings Up in Third Quarter at S&S
Simon & Schuster posted a sales increase of 7%, to $224 million, while operating profits increased about 8% to $41 million for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013.
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Tin House Reissues 'Low Down' in Anticipation of Film
Daughter's memoir about jazz great Joe Albany will release as film starring John Hawkes.
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PRH Starts Work on Unifying Credit, Customer Service Units
Penguin Random House has begun work on creating unified credit and customer service functions for its American business that will be based in Westminster, Md. which currently houses those operations for Random House.
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RH Mondadori Gets New Name
It will now be known as Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
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Publisher's Off-Broadway Play Opens
A play written by Merle Good, publisher of Good Books, began off-Broadway performances on November 2, with an official opening night set for November 17.
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News Briefs: Week of November 4, 2013
August Bookstore Sales Dropped 4.5% and more.
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Mining the ‘Minecraft’ Phenomenon
If you’ve never heard of the video game phenomenon Minecraft, you’ll find out all you’ll need to know in a new book about the game's creation.
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Podcast: Top Ten Books Picked
The trick-or-treat sugar rush has yet to fade, and the holiday gift season already looms. At Publishers Weekly, the editorial elves have put together the years's best books list. Click here to listen.
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'PW' Reveals 101 Best Books of 2013
The best books of 2013, as picked by PW's reviews editors in fiction, nonfiction, comics, romance, mystery, religion, and more.
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Da Capo Goes Back to Press for Lou Reed
After Lou Reed's death on Sunday, Da Capo Press is hoping fans may want to turn to books to remember the influential rocker.
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Picador Set to Launch Modern Classics
Picador will debut its Modern Classics line with the November 5 publication of a Jonathan Franzen's 1988 novel, Twenty-Seventh City.
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Vintage Classics to Publish Another Williams Novel
Following the runaway success of forgotten classic, Stoner, earlier this year, Vintage Classics will publish Butcher’s Crossing, a third novel from the author John Williams.
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HBG Employees Show Their Artistic Side
Editors, designers, and publicists spend their days refining and supporting a writer’s art—his or her book.
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For Major Publishers, Will Print No Longer Be the Norm?
The idea that any standard deal from a major publisher guarantees a print format release—which was previously a foregone conclusion—is something agents are no longer taking for granted, with some expressing concern that the big houses are starting to hedge on print edition commitments in contracts.
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Publishers Respond to Common Core
At a panel on Common Core at BookExpo America, a number of booksellers in the audience seemed anxious about how to incorporate the new state standards into their stores.
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News Briefs: Week of October 28, 2013
Kirshbaum to Leave Amazon Publishing and more.
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Kirshbaum to Leave Amazon Publishing
Amazon has confirmed to PW a story in Friday’s Shelf Awareness that Larry Kirshbaum will step down as head of Amazon Publishing’s general publishing program early next year.
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'Allegiant' Sells 455K Copies on Day One
In what was the largest ever first-day number for HarperCollins, Veronica Roth's YA novel Allegiant sold 455,000 copies globally across all formats on its release day.
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Soho Press Relaunches Web Site
Indie publisher Soho Press has redesigned its Web site and will be selling titles direct, at a discount, through the updated portal.
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Simon & Schuster to Launch Science Fiction, Fantasy Imprint
Simon & Schuster is preparing to up its presence in the science fiction, fantasy and horror market with the launch of a new imprint dedicated to the category.
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