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Archives for November 2019
Briefs
Legal Audible attorney Emily Reisbaum advised the court on Thursday that they are still in discussions with publishers regarding a potential resolution of the Captions lawsuit. Their next progress report will come on or before December 3. Awards Julia Lovell won the 2019 Cundill History Prize for Maoism (Knopf). Bookselling Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego needs to vacate their Balboa Avenue storefront in 60 days — their lease expired in August — and “unless a new buyer and new location are found immediately, Mysterious Galaxy will be forced to close its doors.” They have been looking for a new […]
Not a Good Quarter for Cengage
Educational publisher Cengage — hoping to merge soon with McGraw-Hill if the DOJ approves the plan — continues to struggle while waiting, with revenue falling $63.9 million, down to $410.4 million, in the fiscal second quarter, ending September 30. Net income was $11.5 million, down from $34.4 million. After adjusting for currency exchange, income was even lower, down to $6.5 million from $32.7 million. The company started yet another restructuring during the quarter, “in its Learning segment to streamline operations,” which it says will allow it to make good on its full-year profit forecast. This follows an earlier, now “fully […]
International: Haynes Puts Itself Up for Sale, and Bonnier Launches A Danish Publisher
Haynes Publishing, which is publicly traded in London, has decided to put itself up for sale, with Europa Partners as its financial adviser. Founder John Haynes died a year ago. Executive chairman Eddie Bell said in a statement, “The board now believes our future will be best secured by the whole group becoming part of an organization with the financial resources to invest for future expansion and take the company through to the next 60 years of success.” Sales for the fiscal year ending May 31 were £36.2 million, up 7 percent. Elsewhere, Bonnier Books will launch a new publishing […]
MacLaughlin’s Wake Siren Tops December Indie Next List
The ABA named Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin as its No. 1 pick for December. The list also includes Olaf Olafsson’s The Sacrament and Andie J. Christopher’s Not the Girl You Marry, which are excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2019 and Buzz Books Romance 2019 samplers, respectively. The rest of the picks: Anyone, by Charles Soule Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen, by Dexter Palmer The German House, by Annette Hess, Elisabeth Lauffer (Trans.) Twenty-one Truths About Love, by Matthew Dicks The Second Sleep, by Robert Harris The Clergyman’s Wife, by Molly Greeley Winter Grave, by […]
People, Etc.
Seniqua Koger has joined Kensington Publishing as special markets director. Koger was most recently special markets director, retail at Hachette Book Group. Derek Warker has joined The New Press as Publicity Manager. He was previously publicist at Columbia University Press. Alicia Brooks has joined JVNLA as a literary agent. She was previously editor at Picador and St. Martin’s Press. Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will represent Tachyon Publications for sales and fulfillment starting January 1. Awards Lucy Ellmann‘s Ducks, Newburyport won the UK’s Goldsmiths Prize for fiction that “breaks the mold.”