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Archives for February 2021

People, Etc.

February 26, 2021
By Erin Somers

Bill Hamilton will join Celadon Books as executive editor, starting April 5, where he will acquire “nonfiction with a focus on politics and history.” He was most recently Washington editor at The New York Times. Nathalie Le Du has been promoted to publisher of Odd Dot, reporting to Jen Besser, president of Macmillan Children’s Publishing. Newly reporting to Le […]

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E L James to Move Backlist to New Sourcebooks Imprint for Entrepreneurial Women

February 26, 2021
By Michael Cader

Author of the Fifty Shades Trilogy and other titles E L James will have her entire backlist distributed by Sourcebooks in print and ebooks starting April 1. James is the “keystone author” in a new imprint providing a “joint publishing model” to “entrepreneurial women authors who want to benefit from all that a top publisher […]

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People: Conford Returns to PRH UK to Lead Merged Hutchinson Heinemann

February 25, 2021
By Michael Cader

Two years after leaving Penguin Press UK to serve as publisher of Profile Books, Helen Conford returns to PRH UK on March 29 to lead the literary fiction and nonfiction teams at the Cornerstone Publishing Group. She will be publisher of Hutchinson Heinemann, a merger of the separate William Heinemann, Hutchinson and Windmill imprints. Publishing […]

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Lagardere Publishing Has Modest Rise In Fourth Quarter

February 25, 2021
By Michael Cader

Lagardere reported fourth-quarter and full-year earnings on Thursday afternoon, with publishing sales of €700 million in the holiday quarter 2020, up 3.4 percent from €677 million a year ago. The performance was “led by positive sales trends in the United Kingdom and the post-lockdown catch-up effect in France in December.” For the full year, publishing […]

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AAP Trade Sales Rose 10.2 Percent in 2020

February 25, 2021
By Michael Cader

The AAP reported monthly Stat Shot sales for December and full-year 2020. December was another strong month, with sales of $739 million, up $65 million (9.6 percent) compared to a year ago — with all the gains and then some coming from adult books. Well over half of that gain came from adult hardcovers, which […]

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Simon & Schuster Finishes Best Sales Year

February 25, 2021
By Michael Cader

ViacomCBS reported fourth quarter and full-year earnings on Wednesday afternoon, with sales at Simon & Schuster hitting an all-time high of $901 million for the year, up almost 11 percent from $814 million a year ago. With S&S now classified as discontinued operations, due to the pending sale to Penguin Random House, the parent company […]

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