Wiley reported adjusted third quarter sales of $458 million and operating income $77.6 million, both down slightly. The company took charges of $4.3 million in the quarter related to their ongoing restructuring program, and they expect to take another $10 million of charges in the fourth quarter. The company’s reduced trade book lines are now reported inside the “professional development” segment, where adjusted revenue declined 5 percent o $94.2 million — attributed to “a decline in print books (-9 percent), particularly due to lower demand for technology titles and the discontinuation of certain low-margin non-divested consumer titles.” Digital book sales […]
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Tiffany Tomlin has been promoted to executive director of the newly aligned Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. At Chronicle Books, Liz Marotte has been promoted to senior client account manager. In addition, Lara Starr has been promoted to senior publicist, children’s publishing. At Workman, John Jenkinson has been promoted to senior publicist, while Margaret Rogalski has been named publicist, moving over from Gotham Books. At Disney-Hyperion, Lisa Yoskowitz has been promoted to senior editor, and Laura Schreiber moves up to associate editor. Liz Usuriello has been promoted to publishing coordinator; Joann Hill is now senior manager, design; and Maria Elias […]
Saunders Wins Inaugural Folio Prize; American Academy Winners; and More
George Saunders has won the first Folio Prize for TENTH OF DECEMBER, just a week after winning the Story Prize. (The collection also garnering a National Book Award nomination last fall.) Folio Prize chair Lavinia Greenlaw said in the announcement: “Saunders’s stories are both artful and profound. Darkly playful, they take us to the edge of some of the most difficult questions of our time and force us to consider what lies behind and beyond them. Unflinching, delightful, adventurous, compassionate, he is a true original whose work is absolutely of the moment.” In other awards news, the American Academy of […]
People: Ginna To Leave Bloomsbury Press
Bloomsbury Press publisher and editorial director Peter Ginna will leave the company on March 21 after nearly eight years “by mutual agreement.” Ginna founded the imprint devoted to serious nonfiction, which launched its initial list in 2008, upon moving over from Oxford University Press. Bloomsbury USA publishing director George Gibson will now also serve as publisher of Bloomsbury Press. Ginna told us: “next month Bloomsbury Press will release its 100th title, which seems like an excellent moment to move on. Launching a new imprint from scratch has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my career. I’m grateful to Bloomsbury […]
Zevin’s AJ FIKRY Leads April LibraryReads List
Gabrielle Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF AJ FIKRY, already named the #1 IndieNext pick for April, now also tops the April LibraryReads list. Also appearing is Nina Stibbe’s LOVE, NINA, which is among the 40 titles you can preview right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer. The LibraryReads list also includes: Emma Donoghue, Frog Music Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night Simone St. James, Silence for the Dead Donna Leon, By Its Cover Shane Kuhn, The Intern’s Handbook Colin Cotterill, The Axe Factor Akhil Sharma, Family Life Erin Duffy, On The Rocks
Forthcoming: Books from Rice, Nicholls, and Maybe Lohan
Anne Rice said on a podcast co-hosted by her son Christopher that her new novel, PRINCE LESTAT: The Vampire Chronicles, will be published October 28. Reportedly, the title will be available for pre-order March 16. Author of ONE DAY David Nicholls will release a new novel, US, on “the bond of marriage and the demands of parenthood,” on September 30 in the UK, again from Hodder & Stoughton. It’s his first novel since the breakout ONE DAY (the success of which was spurred by the Random House Films movie version). In turn, producer of the ONE DAY movie Nina Jacobson […]