O’Reilly Media’s PubFactory online publishing platform for journals, books, and reference works has been acquired by Sheridan, Managing director of Sheridan Journal Services Gary Kittredge says in the release, “We are delighted to offer our journal and book publishers this proven and comprehensive hosting and publishing platform. PubFactory will propel Sheridan into a new level of engagement with our customers as we extend our range of services from high-touch editorial production and print solutions to hosting our customers’ content – a complete package.” PubFactory will continue to be based out of Boston, MA. In Canada’s Newfoundland & Labrador, Breakwater Books […]
Archives for May 2017
Book Expo 17: Small Is the New Flat?
As you know, Book Expo convenes in New York City again next week after a quiet show in Chicago last year that appears to have set the stage for a quieter, smaller, simpler, and shorter Book Expo going forward. For the first time since an experiment in 2010, the show floor will be open for two full days only, Thursday, June 1 and Friday, June 2. Which is probably quite adequate now that the exhibitor floor space is also much reduced. Last year’s show in Chicago, occupying 98,000 square feet, was more than 20 percent smaller than the last show […]
Convention Reading for Your Weekend and Any Time
We first invented our popular Buzz Books samplers back in 2012 to harness ebooks in spreading the excitement of grabbing hot galleys and making new discoveries on the convention floor to thousands of people inside the trade and beyond. (Truth be told, most of the printed galleys these days are given away in runs of a few hundred at most.) Whether you’re preparing for Book Expo and want a taste of the big books, or skipping the convention but look forward to sampling new titles from the big fall season, our two Buzz Books samplers are the perfect answer. They’re […]
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt evp and chief content officer Mary Cullinane will leave the company in late July, following a reorganization of her responsibilities. The company said it will “reorganize its existing Product Planning, Development and Marketing function under into three separate but complementary functions focused on core curriculum, supplemental curriculum extensions, and marketing.” Cullinane joined HMH in 2012 as svp of global corporate social responsibility and was made chief content officer in 2013. Megan Jayne Dobson joined Thomas Nelson imprint W Publishing as associate publisher. Samuel M. Caggiula joined Casemate Group as US group publicity director. Most recently, he worked for digital publisher YourTango and consulted for Southard Communications. […]
Bestsellers, Charts, and Some Facts
Most days we focus on trying to make our own news and analysis as accurate, informed and comprehensive as possible and leave others reporting on the trade to their own approaches. But with a lot of attention on Amazon’s new Charts — too much, probably, since this is a new merchandising initiative for Amazon’s customers, on their site, tilted towards their house product and preferred formats — PW has made the same basic error two weeks in a row, so it’s worth making things clear for our readers at least. The new weekly Charts are not “the company’s first move into tracking […]
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ICM Partners promoted Rich Green to head of media rights (which sells book-to-film rights). He joined the agency in 2014. Co-heads of the publishing department Sloan Harris and Esther Newberg and fellow board member Kevin Crotty said in the announcement: “Intellectual property is the lifeblood of media in all formats. With Rich at the helm of our media rights department, we are poised to build on the strength of our publishing department, providing the best opportunities to expand the work of our clients.” Additionally, Hillary Jacobson, Heather Karpas, and Zoe Sandler have each been promoted to agent in the New […]