Denmark-based Egmont has agreed to buy Bonnier’s half of their jointly-owned publishing house in Norway, Cappelen Damm, for NOK 1 billion ($120 million). The company was formed in 2007 by the merger of Egmont’s Damm and Bonnier’s Cappelen. Cappelen Damm had sales in 2020 of NOK 1.3 billion ($156 million), with pre-tax profit of NOK […]
Archives for June 2021
What’s In A Name?….
Simon & Schuster ceo Jonathan Karp said in his latest Word According to Karp video that John Bolton had a different title in mind for his book last summer: “The original title of the book, Ambassador Bolton wanted to call it A Hard Pounding, which was actually a quote from the Duke of Wellington after […]
We’re Running Out of Ways of Telling You Barnes & Noble Education Had A Bad Quarter
Covid was hard on Barnes & Noble Education, which had been struggling even in normal conditions. Sales for the fourth quarter ending May 1 were $223 million, down 13 percent from $257 million a year ago (which was an unusual 14-week quarter), already a low bar given the impact of Covid last year. Two years […]
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McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves Tops August Indie Next List
The ABA named Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves as the No. 1 pick for August’s Indie Next List. Also on the list is Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring, excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Nightbitch, by Rachel Yoder She Who Became the Sun, by […]
Join Us Wednesday, July 7 for Our Next Live Discussion, with Publisher Pam Dorman
At noon Eastern on Wednesday, July 7, publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking Pam Dorman joins as us as the next of our featured regular guests in the new PM user form, Discuss. She’ll answer questions such as submitting to overwhelmed editors; what editors look for in proposals; and more.