The London Book Fair announced its seminar programming, with the opening keynote conversation on Tuesday, March 11 featuring CEO of Hachette Book Group USA and Hachette UK David Shelley and CEO of Barnes & Noble and managing director of Waterstones James Daunt together. They will discuss “Leading Businesses on Both Sides of the Atlantic,” moderated by journalist Alex Peake-Tomkinson — albeit in only a 30-minute session. Unfortunately, the program also features this session. We queried the show’s pr representative to…see what they were thinking: How Non-Fiction Publishing Leaders Can Reliably Leverage AI-Assisted Author Content to Optimise Revenue & Production Time […]
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Bankrupt Diamond Owes Penguin Random House Over $9 Million
In Diamond Comic Distributors’ bankruptcy filing, Penguin Random House is listed as their largest creditor, owed $9.2 million. Among other publishing companies, Disney Consumer Products is owed $1.7 million; Simon & Schuster $600,000; VIZ Media $421,000; and Titan Publishing $357,000. Restructuring firm Getzler Henrich & Associates is a “financial advisor” in the bankruptcy and managing director Robert Gorin is co-chief restructuring officer of the company now according to the filing. Raymond James & Associates is the investment banker advising on the sale of the business units.
Buzz Books Spring/Summer Season Preview: Fiction
It’s another exciting season of new books ahead. To help you sift through the many thousands of planned spring and summer titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy literary, commercial, and breakout titles for adults in fiction and nonfiction, separated into key categories. You can sample some of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer; they are noted with an asterisk. And please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change. The coming publishing season is packed with big names and […]
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Gaiman Responds to Abuse Reports
On his website, Neil Gaiman responded to allegations that he sexually abused several women. As he has previously, he denies ever having non-consensual sexual activity with anyone, and noted that his relationships with the women who reported abuse seemed positive at the time. “As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments I half-recognise and moments I don’t, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen…I went back to read the messages I exchanged with the women around and following the occasions that have subsequently been reported as being abusive. These messages […]