As Endeavor starts informing roughly a third of its staff about who is fired, furloughed and/or set for working half-time, the company is also looking to raise another $250 million in financing to help it through the pandemic, the NY Post reports. In the meantime, Moody’s joined S&P Global Ratings in downgrading Endeavor’s considerable debt load to “negative” since their “liquidity position is projected to deteriorate until the impact of the coronavirus subsides.” In other agency news, California US District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr. dismissed some of the Writers Guild antitrust claims against the big Hollywood agencies in the […]
New Books Publishing April 28
Even with the many changes in spring pub dates that we continue to track and update at publun.ch/pubdatechanges, another wave of new books comes to market today. (Since we started tracking pub date changes, 6 titles originally scheduled to release this week have been moved — including books by Laila Lalami, H. R. McMasters, and Andre Leon Talley.) As in recent weeks, we are ready to call attention to a number of notable titles publishing today in need of attention and support. Our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of: 13 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-28 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Fiction_Publishing_April_28/215887 […]
Vivendi Buys Stake In Lagardere, As Leaders Push Back On Amber Capital Proposal
Vivendi, which owns France’s second largest publisher Editis, has acquired 10.6 percent of Lagardere’s stock. The company says in their release, “This acquisition is a long-term financial investment reflecting Vivendi’s confidence in the future prospects of the French group which enjoys international leadership positions in its businesses and which, like many others, is experiencing difficult times at the moment.” The investment follows a report last week that billionaire Vincent Bollore, Vivendi’s chairman and leading shareholder, was among those buying stakes in Lagardere and planning to support management in their battle with activist hedge fund Amber Capital. Amber has nominated their […]
New Books Publishing April 21
Even with the many changes in spring pub dates that we continue to track and update at publun.ch/pubdatechanges, another wave of new books comes to market today. (Since we started tracking pub date changes, only 6 titles originally scheduled to release this week have been moved — most notably Ottessa Moshfegh’s DEATH IN HER HANDS, still profiled recently in the NYT and the month’s unpublished Indie Next No. 1 pick. As in recent weeks, we are ready to call attention to a number of notable titles publishing today in need of attention and support. Our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store […]
Lerner, Serpell and James Among LA Times Book Prize Winners
The LA Times announced the winners of their 2019 book prizes on Friday: Fiction Ben Lerner, The Topeka School Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine Biography George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Current Interest Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration History […]
Free Resources: The Latest Updates
Our set of free reference resources continues to grow and change as the effects of the pandemic and shelter-in-place orders continue. New April 14 book releases See some of the notable new fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books released this week that need attention and support. And check our shops at Bookshop and Aerbook for more new releases from the past few weeks. Track major pub date changes We are tracking (and organizing by original release date) the continuing wave of changes in publication dates for hundreds of notable titles as well at publun.ch/pubdatechanges. Help for booksellers — and authors, illustrators and other […]