UK-based small press Eyewear Publishing announced on Twitter that “In light of the decision by several Eyewear poets to happily announce new books with rival presses today without warning Director @toddswift_dr has suspended all poetry projects. Poets who abandon their debut presses do severe damage in terms of sales and funding to them.” That post…
UK Trade Stats Show Big Export Business Vulnerable to Brexit, Foreign Exchange and More
We value industry-compiled statistics, but this week’s release of 2017 numbers from the UK’s Publishers Association provides a reminder that you need to focus on the data itself rather than the press release (which will always tell that you business is great). Like most of the UK press, we’re going by the headline release rather…
People, Etc.
At Bonnier Publishing USA, Brett Duquette, formerly senior editor at Sterling Publishing, has joined Little Bee Books and Yellow Jacket; Rachel Gluckstern, formerly production editor at Scholastic, has joined BuzzPop as editor; Lauren Carr, formerly publicity coordinator at Scholastic, has joined the children’s group as publicist. Stephani Stilwell has been promoted to designer and Michael Ploetz has been promoted to coordinator,…
Tor Tests Windowing Frontlist Library eBooks, Joins Broader Library Impact Data Study
Tor Books has begun windowing ebook versions of frontlist titles (e.g. the adult science line) for the library market starting with July releases, delaying their availability for library ebook distribution to four months after the retail on-sale date. The company told libraries this is “part of a test program to determine the impact of eLending…
Picador Is Moved to FSG and Will Drop Originals
Macmillan has realigned Picador, making it a unit of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The imprint will no longer publish trade paperback originals as of April 2019, and in connection with the changes publisher Stephen Morrison is leaving the company on July 31. Executive director of publicity for Picador James Meader will run the line going…
Scholastic Has Stable Finish to Soft Year
Scholastic reported results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year ending May 31, with a stable finish to a year that suffered from comparison to the “prior year’s outstanding success of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” as well as some significant one-time charges. Fourth quarter sales of $496.2 million were down $3.4 million, but operating…