In mid-January, Andrew Miller will become president and publisher at Holt, taking over from publisher-at-large Jamie Raab, who has run the imprint since the end of August. Miller is currently vp, editorial director, nonfiction at Knopf. CEO Jon Yaged said in a release, “From the moment I met Andrew I knew he was the perfect person to lead Holt into the future. He is universally respected and has impeccable, wide-ranging taste. His passion for books and overall curiosity are contagious and matched only by his enthusiasm for collaboration, mentorship and elevating extraordinary writers. His personal success publishing outstanding nonfiction and […]
Archives for November 2023
January Indie Next List
The Fury by Alex Michaelides tops the ABA’s Indie Next List for January.
Yale Nonfiction Book Prize
The Yale Review and Yale University Press are launching the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize.
Distribution: Podium Publishing
Podium Publishing is expanding to “strategically introduce retail print services for their authors” and will distribute those print editions through Two Rivers Distribution. The publisher notes that, “Although Podium’s business model will continue to be anchored in driving audiobook and ebook consumption, this extension will capture unmet demand through traditional print and further serve the needs of authors.”
Attorneys Argue Over Definitions and Book Ratings in Texas’s READER Law
Oral arguments began today in the Book People v. Wong case against Texas’s READER book banning law before a panel of judges. The defense largely argued that the plaintiffs’ claims aren’t ripe, and that their assertations of harm are not sufficient. Judges often asked about the definitions of “sexually explicit” and “sexually relevant,” since booksellers would be barred from selling books categorized as such to public schools. While defense attorney Kateland Jackson explained that the definitions come from the penal code, plaintiffs’ counsel Laura Lee Prather argued that those definitions are “cherry picked” from the penal code, mostly dealing with […]
People 11/29
Avalon VP and publisher Bill Newlin will retire as of June 30, 2024. He has been publisher of Moon since 1991 and became publisher of Avalon in 1999 when Moon merged with Rick Steves.