The National Book Foundation announced its longlist in the nonfiction category.
National Book Award Longlists: Translation and Poetry
The National Book Foundation continued their award longlist announcements with Translated Literature and Poetry.
People 9/15
Natalie Church has been promoted to director of marketing at Grove Atlantic.
Verso Books Union Ratifies Contract
The Verso Books Union in the US has ratified its contract with the publisher, the union announced on Twitter. The contract includes stipulations for wage increases, protections and increases in benefits, affirmative action in hiring, and clear “close to binding” standards for promotions, among other things. Specifically, workers will receive an 11 percent raise for the first year of the contract and a 14.6 percent average increase cumulatively over three years. They also “won a new salary band system that delivers predictable and automatic annual salary steps at the start of each calendar year.” As for back to the office […]
People 9/14
At Scribner, Lauren Dooley has joined as marketing manager. She previously worked as assistant marketing manager at Bloomsbury. Zachary Polendo has joined as publicist. He was previously an associate publicist at Hachette Book Group.
Gibbs Smith Employees Purchase Second Half of Company
Independent publisher Gibbs Smith is now entirely employee-owned, after workers finalized a deal to purchase the second half of the company on August 31. In 2015, cofounders the late Gibbs and Catherine Smith sold half of the company to employees, and in the new deal the company’s employees purchased Catherine Smith’s 50 percent share via a third-party trustee. “We are excited to fulfill Gibbs and Catherine Smith’s dream of becoming a fully employee-owned company,” ceo Brad Farmer, representing the company’s executive management team, said in a release. “Being 100% ESOP owned is a dynamic change in the company’s status and is […]