Edinburgh’s Canongate filed its earnings statement for the year ended December 2017, on the usual delayed UK timetable. While overall sales increased, to £9.59 million from £8.54 million in 2016, the company had an unprofitable year, logging a pre-tax loss of £440,000. The publisher had slim profits in 2016 (£128,000) and 2015 (£119,000) after a […]
Archives for September 2018
People, Etc.
Lili Feinberg has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as associate publicist. She was most recently publicity assistant at Tor/Forge. Rebecca Strobel has been promoted to assistant editor at Touchstone. There’s another change in the executive ranks at CBS: longtime head of corporate communications Gil Schwartz (aka author Stanley Bing) will retire on November 1 after more than […]
People, Etc.
Juliana Kiyan has been promoted to associate publicity director at the Penguin Press. Lara Blackman has joined Audible Originals as an associate editor. She was most recently an assistant editor at Touchstone. Robbie Egan will take over as ceo of the Australian Booksellers Association in early December. Liz Hohenadel‘s colleagues at Riverhead have set up […]
Scholastic Q1 Gains On Strong Trade Sales
Scholastic reported results for its fiscal 2019 first quarter ending August 31, 2018 — their lightest quarter since school is not in session — showing gains in both book publishing and distribution and education. Revenues totaled $218.4 million, up 15 percent compared to $189.2 million in the first quarter of 2018. The net loss improved […]
Things Will Move Around Again At Frankfurt, Starting Next Year
The Frankfurt Book Fair announced some changes to expect starting with next year’s show, in 2019, due to construction at the fairgrounds. Floor 6.3, which has served as the agents’ center for a number of years — and finally had the agents next to (or actually above) North American publishers as of 2015 — is […]
Amazon’s New Soho Store Sells…Stuff
The new Amazon Store space at 72 Spring Street in NYC’s Soho — once thought to be a bookstore — introduces a new concept in the company’s physical store portfolio. Opening Thursday, the awkwardly named “Amazon 4-star” is a general merchandise store that sells a bunch of stuff with high Amazon customer reviews, along with […]