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Archives for July 2020

AAP Releases Annual “Estimates” for 2019

July 31, 2020
By Michael Cader

The AAP released their separate set of annual “estimates” — StatShot Annual — on Friday, which we note for those who find these reports useful. As usual, we provide you with our standing reminder that, in contrast to the AAP’s monthly reports, these “estimates” are the product of taking real data and then multiplying it […]

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People, Etc.

July 31, 2020
By Erin Somers

Longtime director of Ingram Spark Robin Asbury Cutler will retire at the end of 2020. She joined Ingram in 2011 and led the launch of Spark in 2013. She says in the announcement, “I’ve been planning to step down for some time but decided to stay on through 2020 when the pandemic hit. We weren’t […]

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Corporate: LSC’s Book Printing Sales Decline 32 Percent, HBG Celebrates Meyer Pre-Orders, Bloomsbury to Issue Dividend Shares

July 31, 2020
By Sara Grace

LSC Communications, operating under bankruptcy protection and set to auction its assets next month, reported second quarter results for the period ending July 31 on Thursday. Book printing sales comprised $198 million, a decline of $91 million from $289 million a year ago, down almost 32 percent, “primarily due to lower volume which was partially […]

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Lagardere Publishing Down 12% In Second Quarter, with Rebound in June

July 30, 2020
By Sara Grace

Lagardere reported second quarter and half-year 2020 results on Thursday afternoon. Second quarter publishing sales were €514 million, down €70 million from a year ago (a 12 percent decline), with trends pointing up sharply in June. Month by month, the company said sales fell 39 percent in April (at €109 million); were 22 percent lower […]

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People, Etc.

July 30, 2020
By Michael Cader

Alicia Kroell has been promoted to assistant editor at Catapult. At Sourcebooks, Christy Droege has been promoted to director of data. Adam Lara becomes web developer and administrator. Emily Forney and Umaima Saleem have joined BookEnds Literary Agency. Forney was most recently a publishing and editorial fellow for the LA Review of Books; Saleem was […]

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Internet Archive Demands A Jury Trial

July 29, 2020
By Sara Grace

The Internet Archive, sued by four AAP member publishers for “willful mass copyright infringement” after creating an open-access “National Emergency Library” of its 1.3 million self-scanned ebooks, has answered the complaint with a request for a jury trial. (In 1998, the Supreme Court ruled that there is a Seventh Amendment right to a trial by […]

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