Our latest free Buzz Books ebook samplers are off to a great start, with lots of downloads, active press and social media, and already dozens of enthusiastic reviews showing up online as people have come to eagerly await these seasonal editions. And it’s no wonder once you have a look at the complete list below of forthcoming books and authors previewed in our two ebooks. As noted, you can collect the “trade editions” as EPUBs or through NetGalley from this page (for the adult edition) and this one (for the young adult edition). Or just pick up the consumer editions […]
Archives for May 2015
The BEA Master Schedule, In One Place
As usual, for people who have trouble navigating the official BEA online listings, we have compiled our handy BEA Master Schedule. Posted as a shared Google spreadsheet, you can download it, print it, and sort/search it according to your needs. We have gathered all the posted events information and put it into a day-by-day format. And each event also has a “track” tag, so you can easily sort by topic/type to find what you are looking for. Our schedule is posted and shared via the easy-to-use publun.ch/BEA15sched. Please note the schedule is comprehensive for BEA seminars and events, but is very […]
BEA Starts Here with Two New Buzz Books Collections
We let the AP and our selected authors and publishers take the lead in making the announcement of our release of the big new Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter and Fall/Winter Young Adult free ebook samplers. We first created Buzz Books three years to solve two problems: Curating and sharing the wealth of “buzz books” on display at BEA well beyond one or two panel slots, to help attendees arrive with real knowledge of some of the important books (and to share BEA with those across the trade who don’t attend), and anticipating how you might achieve the “great giveaway” […]
People
Ben Platt will join Basic Books as editor. Previously he was an associate editor at Penguin Press. Chad Bunning has been named retail and operations manager for the Rizzoli Bookstore in New York, which is set to reopen at its new location at 1133 Broadway later this summer. Previously he was general manager at BookCourt. In addition, Chris Pangborn joins the bookstore as head buyer, moving over from Shakespeare & Company, where he was backlist buyer and head merchandiser for more than two decades. In the UK, Cecilia Campbell-Westlind joins Eccles Fisher Associates on May 26th. She previously worked at Daniela Schlingmann […]
Paulson Will Pull More Money Out of HMH with Secondary Offering and Share Buyback
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s largest shareholder John Paulson and his associated investment funds will be cashing out another couple of pieces of his investment. The recently announced $300 million in stock repurchases announced by the board apparently includes a deal to buy $150 million of stock directly from Paulson’s companies. The price per share for that side agreement is pegged to a secondary offering to the public of additional shares controlled by Paulson. That prospectus, just filed with the SEC, proposes selling up to roughly 12.16 million shares — or about 8.5 percent of shares outstanding. As with the first public offering of […]
People, Etc.
Philip Ruppel has joined Phaidon Press as chief operating officer. CEO Keith Fox says, “His proven track record of delivering growth through profitable innovation and enhanced digital offerings fits brilliantly with Phaidon’s commitment to enhancing our brand as the world’s premier fine arts publisher.” Most recently he was president of McGraw-Hill Education’s Professional division. (That unit is now overseen by Mark Dorman.) Susan Winslow has been promoted to managing director of Macmillan Higher Education, reporting to ceo Ken Michaels, who says in the announcement: “Susan has a clear understanding of our customer needs and in the evolving nature of publishing. She is […]