Penguin Young Readers has partnered with Lion Forge Entertainment to develop TV and film projects based on their titles. The first titles include Brian McCann’s Wannabe Farms, Tyler Knott Gregson and Sarah Linden’s North Pole Ninjas, M.D. Payne’s Monster Juice series and Francesco Sedita and Prescott Seraydarian’s The Pathfinders Society series. “Lion Forge is the perfect partner to bring some of Penguin’s most exciting properties to screens worldwide,” PYR president Jen Loja said. “With their expertise in engaging diverse audiences with unique yet universal stories, we couldn’t be more excited to see how these projects develop.” Lion Forge Entertainment president […]
Distribution: New Clients for BTPS
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will provide full sales and distribution for New Paradigm Publishers and Image Cascade in the US and Canada, effective immediately; Energy Psychology Press in the US and Canada, starting October 1; and The Secret Mountain in the US and Bridge City Books in US and Canada, both effective January 1. BTPS will also handle fulfillment for Shine Early Learning in the US and Canada, effective immediately, and Popular Book Company in the US on October 1.
New Books Publishing September 12
James Ellroy and Kelley Armstrong publish new novels this week, while new nonfiction includes work from Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey, Walter Isaacson, and Alejandra Campoverdi. Also out this week are THE VASTER WILDS by Lauren Groff and FAIR ROSALINE by Natasha Solomons, collected in our Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter anthology, and AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME by Marianna Leal, available in our Buzz Books 2023: Romance collection. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-12 10 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-12 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources […]
Pulitzer Board Expands Eligibility for Authors
Beginning with the 2025 awards, which opens for submissions in spring 2024, the Pulitzer Prize board has changed the eligibility requirements for the books, drama and music awards to include “US citizens, permanent residents of the United States,” and authors for whom “the United States has been their longtime primary home.” Previously, only US citizens were eligible for the awards, with the exception of authors of history books, who could be of any nationality if their book was about US history. “For the sake of consistency,” the prize board said, history books must be written by US authors according to […]
Authors Guild Helps Authors Demand Takedown from IA
Though the Internet Archive was found guilty of copyright infringement and forced to remove books from its website, the injunction itself only applies to books published by the plaintiffs–Hachette, Harper Collins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House–and there is a provision designed to include any other AAP member publishers who wish to do so. The injunction also only covers titles that are available in ebook editions, leaving out some print books that may have been self-published, published by small presses, or had their rights reverted (or even books where big houses have rights only to the print editions). In a blog […]
Wiley’s Q1 Sales Were “As Expected” After Reorganization
Wiley reported earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, with sales of $451 million, down 7 percent. Operating loss was $(16) million, an increase of 4 percent. Adjusted EBITDA fell 10 percent to $60 million. “Our Q1 performance was as expected as we continue to execute on our plans and position Wiley for the future,” president and ceo Brian Napack said. “While Research was down due to an unusual publishing pause in the second half of last year, we are seeing underlying strength and momentum returning, including growing article volumes, higher journal impact scores, and new partner signings. We […]