Welcome back to The Edit, our monthly column about the forthcoming titles everyone in publishing is reading. This month, with an eye toward spring and summer, we asked the staff of the Center For Fiction which galleys they have been loving. Bookstore buyer Melanie Fleishman recommends Under Water by Tara Menon (Riverhead, 3/17): “Two best friends spend an idyllic childhood together by the Indian Ocean, diving among brilliantly colored fish until the 2004 tsunami hits—claiming one of them. This event is bookended by an approaching Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Utterly vivid, Menon’s debut captures the beauty of the natural world […]
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Pearson Ekes Ahead in 2025, As Profits Suffer
Perason announced preliminary results for their full year 2025, further to the brief trading update they released in January. Actual topline sales for the year were barely about flat at £3.577 billion, only £25 million higher than a year ago, though the company reports “underlying” sales growth of 4 percent. Sales suffered due to currency exchange. Statutory operating profit of £507 million was down £34 million, but they take heart that adjusted operating profit rose 6 percent to £614 million, due to the growth and sales and cost savings, “partially offset by investment and inflation.” Profits fell due in part […]
Distribution: Johns Hopkins University Press
Princeton University Press will sell Johns Hopkins University Press in China starting March 1.
DK to Publish Branded Lego Books Fiction Line
DK will launch a new line of children’s books in partnership with Lego, including fiction, chapter books, and “story builders”—middle grade books packaged with exclusive Lego bricks—under the DK Flip imprint. The first titles will publish in the fall, including Jeffrey Brown’s middle grade novel Nikolas Nurdblok and the Lost Brick in October.