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Social Justice Resources for the Book Business
As protests against police violence and in support of marginalized communities continue nationwide, PW has put together a list of social justice resources to aid members of the book business and others in their efforts.
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Vesuvian Media Group Launches Romance Book Line
Vesuvian Media Group announced plans to launch Rosewind Books, a romance media division focused on contemporary, historical, fantasy and holiday romance titles.
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Workers Across Book Business Take Collective Action Against Racism
On June 8, a group of more than 1,100 workers across book and media industries, most of them junior staffers, will take a day off from work, donate a day's pay to one of a number of fundraisers, and use their time to engage in acts of service in an effort to protest the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and "the many other Black lives lost to racist violence in America."
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Authors Push for Transparency with #PublishingPaidMe
A new hashtag campaign aims to highlight the disparity in book advances between white and black authors and has garnered well over 1,000 submissions.
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Poets Call for Change at Poetry Foundation
An open letter to the Poetry Foundation signed by more than 1,800 individuals issued in response to the organization's recent statement on the killing of George Floyd and other current events calls for significant change at the organization, including the resignations of its president and board of trustees chair.
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Move Books Moves Forward
Middle grade books aimed at boys tout adventure, humor, and a dash of mayhem. (Sponsored).
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Publishers Raise, Donate Funds to Antiracist Causes
Publishers Quarto Group, Coffee House, and Tin House Books are both committing funding to causes supporting black rights and social justice in response to the civil unrest nationwide following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
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New York's Publishers Won't Reopen Until September
None of the major New York City publishers who took part in a 'PW' survey about their efforts to return employees to their Manhattan headquarters had fixed plans—and none said they expected to begin bringing staff back in a meaningful way before September 1.
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'Trans New York' Seeks to Immortalize Transgender People through Portraiture
In the new book 'Trans New York,' published by Apollo Publishers on June 2, photographer Peter Bussian spotlights, through portraits, the transgender community living throughout New York City’s five boroughs.
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Publishers Sue the Internet Archive for Copyright Infringement
Four publishers filed suit on Monday over the Internet Archive's Open Library initiative, calling the IA’s scanning, and lending of library books copyright infringement on "a massive scale."
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S&S Enters the Karp Era
The publisher’s new president and CEO, Jonathan Karp, is unfazed about the challenges to come as he takes the reins.
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Authors Take Publishing's Diversity Issues into Their Own Hands
As the book business's diversity problem continues apace, more and more authors of color are using their own means to push for systemic changes.
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Manga Publishers Are Holding Steady—For Now
After years of sales growth, manga publishers are doing their best to respond to the pandemic.
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Macmillan Launches Indie Bookstore Assistance Program
Macmillan Publishers will issue promotional terms intended to help independent bookstores recover from what it calls "the significant and calamitous impacts of Covid-19 on the channel."
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Schrank Named to Head Astra Publishing House
Backed by Thinkingdom Media Group, Astra Publishing House has launched a new adult division, which will join children's divisions Boyds Mills & Kane and minedition in the new company. Former Holt head Ben Schrank is publisher and COO of Astra.
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Diversion Debuts Nonfiction Podcast Series
Diversion Publishing is launching Diversion Podcasts, a new production unit and podcast studio that will develop and release original nonfiction audio series hosted by veteran nonfiction authors.
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HBG Launches Indie Bookstore Assistance Program
Hachette Book Group is launching a new program to assist in the reopening of independent bookstores. The program is intended to help stores recover from the impact of Covid-19 on their businesses, as well as to aid them in reopening.
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Covid-19 Updates: Special Offers, Events and Discounts
A list of special offers, events, and discounts offered in an effort to mitigate the impact of the new coronavirus on the book publishing industry and related communities.
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In Pandemic, Dystopian Fiction Loses Its Luster for Editors
The renewed interest in dystopian tales following the election of Donald Trump seems to be dying down as, with the globe seized by a pandemic and millions of Americans hunkered down because of shelter-at-home orders, editors say they are interested in lighter fare—mostly.
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PRH Continues Digital Consumer Outreach with #BooksConnectUs Campaign
Penguin Random House's efforts to to pivot to a new, digital normal are some of the broadest in the publishing business thus far, and its #BooksConnectUs initiative, which will turn two months old on May 20, is its connective tissue.
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