Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for May is Furious Hours by Casey Cep, and its Featured Debut is Riots I Have Known by Ryan Chapman. Also on the list is Sarah Blake’s The Guest Book, which is excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Bitcoin Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich Correspondents, by Tim Murphy A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do, by Pete Fromm The Apology, by Eve Ensler The Deer Camp, by Dean Kuipers Cari Mora, by Thomas Harris Once More We Saw Stars, by Jayson Greene Barnes & Noble […]
Archives for May 2019
McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Plan to Merge
As the educational publishing market continues to contract, two of the biggest players — McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning — announced plans today for an all-stock cashless merger that would create the second largest provider of textbooks and higher education learning materials in the United States. With the deal expected to close “by early 2020,” it would create a company with $3.16 billion in annual sales — and more than $4.5 billion in long-term debt. (The leader, a shrinking Pearson, had total sales of £4.13 billion in 2018, or about $5.5 billion. Their North American sales were £2.78 billion, or […]
People, Etc.
Pippa Wright joins Orion Spring this summer as publishing director, reporting to publisher Amanda Harris. She was previously rights director at Cornerstone. Becky Odell has been promoted to publicist at Dutton. Liz Gately is now scouting for Horizon in China. Reviews The San Francisco Chronicle‘s new contributing books editor Patrick Thomas explains how books are selected for review: “Simply put: Trust in the collective wisdom of the books community. Every week this will include personal correspondence with Bay Area booksellers, writers from here and around the world, and global publishing house executives, as well as consulting prepublication reviews that librarians […]
Stanford University Press Gets Funding for One More Year
Following significant community pushback, Stanford University has agreed to fund Stanford University Press for one more year, reversing a decision in April to discontinue the $1.7 million annual subsidy. Provost Persis Drell wrote in a letter to faculty that the funds would be extended through 2019-2020 “to help ensure a smooth transition to a sustainable future” and that they could possibly be continued through the 2020-2021 school year as well. Additionally, the university said it might loosen fundraising restrictions on the press that currently keep it from soliciting major donations, and it pledged to “ensure faculty input” in planning for […]