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HMH Reorganization Will Cut 525 Jobs
As Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shifts more of its education publishing business to the creation of digital products, the company said it has implemented a restructuring program that will cut its workforce by 22% in order to save between $95 million to $100 million annually.
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Beacon Press Increases Entry-Level Wages to $44.6K
Beacon Press has increased its entry-level salaries to $44,600 a year, an increase of $9,000, making it the highest baseline wage in publishing to have been publicly announced thus far.
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PW Inks Distribution Deal for Digital Archive
East View Information Services will now distribute the 'Publishers Weekly' Digital Archive. The archive is composed of 7,500 past issues of 'PW' with more than 650,000 fully searchable pages. It includes 435,000 book reviews beginning in the 1940s.
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Will Poetry Push This Publisher Through the Pandemic?
Kansas City, Mo.–based Andrews McMeel Publishing is seeing strong sales despite disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic—and poetry has a whole lot to do with it.
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Macmillan Ups Baseline Salary to $42K
Macmillan Publishers U.S. will raise its entry-level salary to $42,000 a year starting December 27. The raise will apply to all incoming and existing employees.
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At Hearing, Judge Appears Unmoved by New Claims in Bolton Case
At a September 24 teleconference, Judge Royce Lamberth suggested that a former NSC official's claims that Trump officials had abused the prepublication review process for John Bolton's bestselling memoir amounted to a "political diatribe."
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NSC Official Details a Politically Tainted Review Process for Bolton Memoir
In a bombshell letter filed with the court this week, attorneys for the National Security Council official who led the prepublication review of John Bolton’s bestselling memoir 'The Room Where It Happened' confirmed the official's position that the book was cleared of classified information after an intensive process—only to end up blocked by political appointees.
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Triumph Books, Sports Illustrated Partner to Launch Sports Book Series
Sports book publisher Triumph Books is partnering with Authentic Brands Group, owner of the Sports Illustrated brand, to produce a series of frontlist titles based around the venerable sports magazine and its associated properties.
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IDW Names Brustrom to Head New Family Content Division
IDW Media Holdings announced plans to launch a kids, family, and young adult division as part of its IDW Entertainment and IDW Publishing units. The division will operate under the direction of Jeff Brustrom, who has been named its v-p, and will focus primarily on animation.
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Allan Adler to Leave AAP
In a brief announcement this week, the Association of American Publishers announced that longtime executive Allan Adler will leave his position as executive v-p and general counsel of the organization, effective October 15.
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Fassler In, Gillespie and Lamb Up at KDPG
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group has announced a new hire at the publishing group level and a series of promotions across a handful of its imprints, including Kristin Fassler's return to Penguin Random House.
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Preparing for the Post-Sargent Era
After the sudden and unexpected loss of its CEO, Macmillan looks to move forward.
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Women Authors Cope with the Pandemic
Nearly six months into the pandemic, increased time spent at home has led to unique challenges for women. PW reached out to authors who are also mothers to learn how the coronavirus has affected their work.
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Macmillan Employees Deal with 'A Very Tough Day'
Macmillan Trade US president Don Weisberg said Thursday was "definitely a very tough day" for Macmillan employees following the surprise announcement that CEO John Sargent will leave the company at the end of the year.
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Dan Halpern Moving to Editor-at-Large at Ecco
Dan Halpern, who founded Ecco in 1971 and sold it to HarperCollins in 1999, is transitioning from the role of president and publisher of the imprint to editor-at-large.
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Callaway Arts to Publish 'The Beatles: Get Back'
Set for release in August 2021, the title is the first authorized book by the Beatles in two decades.
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HBG Releases Diversity and Inclusion Progress Report
A new diversity and inclusion progress report from Hachette Book Group details internal and external commitments, including goals to increase the number of people of color employed by the company as well as make “measurable improvements” to company culture and community service.
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DoJ Said to Be Pursuing Criminal Charges Over Bolton Memoir
S&S officials would neither confirm or deny to 'PW' the receipt of a subpoena, and declined to comment on reports in numerous outlets suggesting that the DoJ has convened a grand jury to consider charging John Bolton for illegally divulging classified or otherwise privileged information in his book 'The Room Where It Happened.'
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Wildfires Taking Toll on Booksellers, Publishers
As wildfires spread across the West, Oregon's Blackstone Publishing has started a GoFundMe campaign in support of eight employees who have lost their homes, while Binc begins to aid booksellers in need.
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Parneshia Jones Named Director of Northwestern University Press
Parneshia Jones, an 18-year veteran at Northwestern University Press, most recently serving as trade editorial director, was named director. She is the first Black person in the press's 127-year history to hold that position.
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