The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a 12-year lease for a Green Apple Books outlet in the Harvey Milk terminal at San Francisco International Airport. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the store is slated to open in March 2024, with construction beginning in October 2023. Hudson “will be the majority owner and responsible for rent and paying staff.” “The way the deal is structured, with Hudson as our partner, Green Apple doesn’t have to make much of an investment upfront,” Green Apple co-owner Pete Mulvihill said. “We could have gone this alone. We felt this was the safest way […]
People 9/14
Molly Young, Alexandra Jacobs, and Jennifer Wilson join the New York Times books desk.
Pearson Sues Chegg For Copyright Infringement In Selling Textbook Answers
Pearson Education filed a lawsuit yesterday against Chegg, claiming copyright infringement. The complaint claims that the website Chegg Study sells answers to end-of-chapter questions from 9,000 textbooks, including Pearson’s, “using precisely the same unit, chapter, and topic orders and naming conventions for the questions employed in the textbooks.” Subscribers to Chegg Services, which includes Chegg Study, grew 67 percent to 6.6 million last year, and the company reported $644 million in net sales in 2020, up from $410 million in 2019, according to SEC filings. The complaint states, “Textbook questions are intended to be part of the learning progression. Educators […]
New Books Publishing September 14
Colson Whitehead, Joy Williams, Liane Moriarty, and T.C. Boyle lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes books from Gabrielle Union, Carmelo Anthony, and Nathaniel Philbrick. Also out today are works by Katie Lattari and James Kennedy, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler, and Ali Hazelwood, available in our Buzz Books 2021: Romance sampler. 19 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-14 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_September_/219822 20 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-14 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_September_/219823 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make […]
People 9/13
Chief Product Officer and co-president, Direct-to-Consumer Ishantha Lokuge is leaving the company "for personal reasons." President of the higher education division Tim Bozik will add responsibility as interim chief product officer, starting October 4.
2021 Kirkus Prize Finalists
Kirkus announced the finalists for the 2021 Kirkus Prize. The winners will be announced in a virtual ceremony on October 28.