Shannon Marchese will join the Tommy Nelson children’s imprint as vp, publisher, starting April 13 and reporting to Laura Minchew. She was most recently executive editor at WaterBrook & Multnomah and Convergent. Kathy Wielgosz has joined Macmillan Children’s as production editor. She was most recently an assistant production editor at Little, Brown. The Book Industry Study Group has a brief survey posted on current and expected supply-chain issues in the wake of the pandemic, in advance of an April 9 online conversation moderated by members of the BISG board that will discuss challenges and opportunities across the book industry supply […]
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Free Resources: More Updates
A lot of updates came in to our sharable, free web pages on resources and measures the publishing community is taking. Continue to let us know as you add initiatives and information. Also, publishers, since all of your new educational permissions policies vary slightly, try to post the complete guidelines somewhere on your website so that we can link to them, thanks. How to help booksellers — and authors [http://publun.ch/supportBooksellers] The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association pledged a gift to BINC, on top of Abrams’ new gift and campaign. How educators can get publisher permissions [http://publun.ch/permissions] Updates from Macmillan, and Houghton […]
Status: Indiana Warehouses, Canadian Book Printers
Following Indiana’s stay-at-home order, HMH Books & Media has temporarily closed their distribution center in Indianapolis, IN until April 6, per the timeframe in the order. During this time, HMH will hold all orders in process. While that order does allow “fulfillment centers” to operate as “essential infrastructure,” the company says “our top priority is the community’s safety and we will continue to assess and will ask folks to return in order to fulfill essential needs.” President Ellen Archer said, “We have taken the preliminary step to close our Indiana distribution center in order to comply with the spirit of […]
Abrams Pledges At Least $50,000 In New Fundraiser to #HelpABookseller
Publisher Abrams launched a new #HELPABOOKSELLER fundraising challenge campaign to benefit BINC (Book Industry Charitable Foundation), looking to raise more than $100,ooo to help booksellers in need. Ceo Michael Jacobs says in the announcement, “As a company, we’ve been focused and committed to taking care of one another during this extraordinary time. We realized that what we possess at Abrams is a will and a drive to make a difference. So, we decided to raise funds to help booksellers in a way that brought our larger, interconnected book community together around this goal. Abrams’ corporate donation to BINC will comprise […]
Over Half of Barnes & Noble Stores Now Temporarily Closed
After resisting closing stores as much as possible, in recent days Barnes & Noble has been forced to temporarily shutter a number of their stores nationwide by order of local governments. As of late Wednesday morning, BN confirmed to Publishers Lunch that they now “have over 370 temporary store closures.” With a base of 620 stores across the country under normal operations, that means BN has closed about 60 percent of their stores so far. That leaves them with something under 250 stores still currently open. (At least a few more BN locations announced on social media during the day […]
Rowman & Littlefield Temporarily Furloughs Their Staff; Scholastic Cutbacks Are Underway
Rowman & Littlefield has furloughed their entire staff of 450 people—”management team and all”– for two weeks, without pay, “with the exception of a skeleton crew working to print books and ship orders,” ceo Jed Lyons confirmed to PL on Tuesday. “As I explained to the team last week,” he told us, “a temporary furlough is the best way to preserve jobs for everyone going forward.” It “keeps everyone on the payroll and with health care.” Lyons underscores, “We have not laid anyone off” and says that they “will reassess a week from Friday.” Elsewhere, staff cutbacks are underway at […]