US staff at PRH, Macmillan to work from home; Madrid Book Fair postponed
Monday, 16 March 2020
In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, the US offices of Penguin Random House and Macmillan will remain open but staff have been instructed to work from home. In an...
National Book Critics Circle Awards winners announced
Monday, 16 March 2020
In the US, the winners of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been announced. The winners include: Fiction Everything Inside: Stories (Edwidge Danticat, Knopf) Nonfiction Say Nothing:...
Bologna book fair cancelled
Thursday, 12 March 2020
Due to the spread of coronavirus in Italy, organisers of the Bologna Children's Book Fair (BCBF) have cancelled this year’s rescheduled event, which was due to run from 4–7 May....
US publishers’ sales up 1.8% in 2019: StatShot
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
In the US, estimates from the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) StatShot program show that US publishers’ sales totalled US$14.7 billion (A$22.6b) in 2019, up 1.8% on the previous year,...
PRH pulls worldwide staff from Bologna
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Penguin Random House (PRH) will not send any staff to the rescheduled Bologna Children’s Book Fair, making it the second of the Big Five publishers to cancel its appearance at...
S&S pulls UK, US staff from Bologna
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Staff from the UK and US divisions of Simon & Schuster (S&S) won’t attend the rescheduled Bologna Children’s Book Fair in May, reports Publishers Weekly. Last month, the fair was postponed...
Hachette staff walkout to protest Woody Allen’s memoir
Friday, 6 March 2020
In the US, employees at Grand Central Publishing, Little, Brown and several other Hachette Book Group (HBG) imprints have staged a walkout three days after Grand Central Publishing announced it...
ViacomCBS looks to sell S&S
Thursday, 5 March 2020
In the US, mass media company ViacomCBS is planning to sell Simon & Schuster, reports Publishers Weekly. At a Morgan Stanley investor conference, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish said it will...
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 longlist announced
Wednesday, 4 March 2020
In the UK, the longlist for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Now in its 25th year, the £30,000 (A$58,370) prize is presented annually to the best...
LBF to go ahead as publishers pull UK staff from fair
Wednesday, 4 March 2020
Penguin Random House (PRH), Pan Macmillan and Hachette Livre, as well as Curtis Brown parent company Original Talent, have withdrawn all staff—including UK employees—from the London Book Fair (LBF) due...
Big five US publishers, Amazon withdraw from LBF
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Amazon and the US businesses of HarperCollins, Hachette and Penguin Random House are the latest publishers to withdraw staff from the London Book Fair (LBF) due to the coronavirus outbreak,...
Hachette UK revenue down 1.4% in 2019
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Lagardère full-year results show that Hachette UK’s revenue was down 1.4% in 2019, reports the Bookseller. Hachette UK CEO David Shelley said that while 2019 was a strong year for...
S&S, Macmillan US pull out of LBF due to coronavirus
Monday, 2 March 2020
Several American publishing companies including Simon & Schuster US (S&S), Macmillan Trade US, Ingram Content Group and OverDrive have pulled out of the London Book Fair (LBF) due to the...
Waterstones staff to receive 6.2% pay rise
Thursday, 27 February 2020
In the UK, staff at bookselling chain Waterstones will receive a 6.2% pay rise, reports the Bookseller. Effective 1 April, the raise in bookseller wages is in line with the...
Folio Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
In the UK, the shortlist for the £30,000 (A$59,000) Rathbones Folio Prize has been announced. The eight shortlisted titles are: Guest House for Young Widows (Azadeh Moaveni, Scribe) On Chapel...
Bologna postponed due to coronavirus
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
This year's Bologna Children’s Book Fair has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. The fair, which was scheduled for 30 March–2 April, will now run from 4–7...
Revenue, profit down at S&S in 2019
Friday, 21 February 2020
In the US, Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) parent company ViacomCBS has reported that the publisher’s OIBDA (operating income before depreciation and amortisation) fell from US$153 million (A$231.3m) in 2018 to...
HarperCollins creates standalone Irish division
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
HarperCollins is creating a new standalone Irish publishing division, reports the Bookseller. The division, which launches on 16 March, will be headed by Conor Nagle, who is currently Gill Books...
Bertelsmann aims to be climate neutral by 2030
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann is aiming to be climate neutral by 2030. The media company said it aims to halve its greenhouse gas emissions from 2018 levels, when...
Full RWA board resigns, special election called over controversy
Monday, 17 February 2020
In the US, the entire board of Romance Writers of America (RWA) has resigned and the association has called a special election to fill the board, reports Publishers Weekly. The...
Authors condemn US university decision to fire publishing staff
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
In the US, around 60 authors, reviewers and publishing figures have penned an open letter condemning Wayne State University (WSU) over the firing of three longtime senior employees from the...
Audible banned from using major publishers’ works in Captions
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
In newly revealed details of the settlement made between seven US publishers and Audible, the audiobook company won’t use major publishers’ works in its Captions program without their permission, reports...
New women’s prize to award over $150k to a single work of fiction
Monday, 10 February 2020
In Canada, the newly announced Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will award C$150,000 (A$169,000) to a single work of fiction by a woman or non-binary writer. Launching in 2022, the...
LBF to host audiobook summit
Friday, 7 February 2020
The London Book Fair (LBF) is launching a new audiobook summit, to be held on 10 March. Audio HQ will include sessions on the size of the UK market and...
B&N, PRH cancel Diverse Editions promotion after backlash
Thursday, 6 February 2020
In the US, Barnes & Noble and Penguin Random House have cancelled a planned Black History Month promotion after a social media backlash that accused the companies of ‘literary blackface’,...
Macmillan USA commits to increasing Latinx representation after ‘American Dirt’ controversy
Wednesday, 5 February 2020
In the US, Macmillan has committed to increasing the number of Latinx authors and staff across the company, in response to the controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins' novel American Dirt. The...
Taipei book fair postponed due to coronavirus
Monday, 3 February 2020
The Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), originally scheduled for 4–9 February, has been postponed until 7–12 May as a result of the spreading coronavirus epidemic. The Ministry of Culture, Taiwan...
Amazon net sales up by 20% in 2019
Monday, 3 February 2020
Amazon has released its full-year financial results for 2019, reporting a net sales increase of 20% on the previous year. The company's financial results for 2018 showed a net sales...
Macmillan employees banned from attending DBW conference over ebook embargo
Friday, 31 January 2020
Digital Book World (DBW) has banned Macmillan employees from attending its 2020 conference in solidarity with the American Library Association’s (ALA) campaign against the publisher's restrictions on new release ebooks....
US survey finds publishing workforce 76% white, 74% female
Thursday, 30 January 2020
In the US, the results from Lee & Low’s 2019 ‘Diversity Baseline’ survey of the workforce have been released, showing little change from the publisher’s 2015 survey. The survey found...
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