Following yesterday’s news that HMH Books & Media had temporarily closed its Indiana distribution center as the state is on lockdown, parent HMH issued a business update, announcing a series of cutbacks. The “majority of employees” have been reduced to a four-day work week, at pro-rated pay, while directors and top executives have taken a…
People, Etc.
Shannon Marchese will join the Tommy Nelson children’s imprint as vp, publisher, starting April 13 and reporting to Laura Minchew. She was most recently executive editor at WaterBrook & Multnomah and Convergent. Kathy Wielgosz has joined Macmillan Children’s as production editor. She was most recently an assistant production editor at Little, Brown. The Book Industry…
Free Resources: More Updates
A lot of updates came in to our sharable, free web pages on resources and measures the publishing community is taking. Continue to let us know as you add initiatives and information. Also, publishers, since all of your new educational permissions policies vary slightly, try to post the complete guidelines somewhere on your website so that…
Audible Increases ACX Author Royalties, But Eliminates Promo Code Payments
Audible has temporarily increased author and narrator royalties to 45 percent on books by self-published ACX authors in an effort “to reduce the financial impact of COVID-19 on the creative community.” ACX audiobooks exclusively distributed through Audible, Amazon, and iTunes in April, May, and June are eligible for the full increase, while royalties on non-exclusively…
And Macmillan Withdraws From Book Expo As Well
If Reed Exhibitions stages a Book Expo and Book Con in late July, it will happen without any of the country’s five largest trade publishers. On Thursday, Macmillan joined the others in announcing that it, too, will not participate: “Due to an abundance of caution for our employee safety and guidance of the city and…
Internet Archive Grants Itself Emergency Copyright Powers for Uncontrolled Digital Lending
“To make a real difference for the nation and the world,” the Internet Archive unilaterally granted itself emergency powers to lend a corpus of over 1.4 million ebooks without any restrictions, contrary to its own stated policies. They are calling it a “National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners,” lasting at least through…