In the opening general session of the ALA annual meeting, journalist and author of THE 1619 PROJECT, A NEW ORIGIN STORY Nikole Hannah-Jones discussed the origins of and responses to the project and the upcoming book. In conversation with publisher and eic of One World Chris Jackson, she made no mention of her tenure rejection at UNC, but focused instead on the original New York Times Magazine piece and how it challenges education and patriotism. The origins began when as a teenager in Iowa, she took the one Black studies class that was offered at her high school, the first […]
Archives for June 2021
People 6/24
Obituaries
Two-time Newbery Honor author for Lily’s Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods, Patricia Reilly Giff, 86, died on June 22.
McGraw Hill Reports Q4
In advance of the closing of their pending sale of McGraw Hill to Platinum Equity, the company reported fourth quarter and full-year results. As of March 31, their total debt had a face value of $2.159 billion. They paid debt service of $227 million in the fiscal year, and ended the year with $354 million of cash. The risk factors section notes plainly, “We are a leveraged company that has substantial indebtedness.” Higher ed sales were $649 million in the year, and K-12 sales were $584 million. Like HMH, Pearson and other education companies, McGraw Hill touts its digital transformation […]
Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards
Initiatives
Wattpad has paired with AST in Russia for a co-branded AST Wattpad line publishing some of the site’s top Russian-language stories. AST will also publish Wattpad Books titles in Russian, and will translate some popular Wattpad stories into Russian.