The SPCK Group, including Lion Hudson, IVP UK and SPCK, will be sold and distributed by Baker & Taylor Publisher Services in the US and Canada starting July 1.
Distribution
Post-Brexit, UK Considers Change to Copyright Laws
Now that the UK has left the European Union, the UK government must decide on its own rules for copyright exhaustion on physical books and other intellectual property. On Monday, the government opened a consultation on whether to institute parallel trade—common in pharmaceuticals and other consumer goods—which would allow for the resale of printed books across borders without publisher permission. Until the end of 2020, once a book was placed on the market in the UK and European Economic Area, the copyright was “exhausted” and authors and publishers had no control over the resale of their book in those countries. […]
(Limited) Distribution
Dave Eggers’ THE EVERY, a follow-up to THE CIRCLE, will publish on October 5 in a limited-distribution hardcover that will be sold exclusively through independent bookstores and McSweeney’s website. Eggers said in an email, “I don’t like bullies. Amazon has been kicking sand in the face of independent bookstores for decades now.” Vintage will publish trade paperback and ebook editions on November 16, available through all retailers. The strategy means that links to pre-order the trade paperback and ebook are available widely already — but since the limited-distribution hardcover isn’t available through an ONIX feed, independent bookstores’ websites don’t have […]
Distribution
Rocketship Entertainment will be sold and distributed by Simon & Schuster worldwide starting July 1.
People, Etc.
Andrea Hall has joined Beaming Books as senior acquisitions editor. She was formerly editor at Albert Whitman & Company. Bookselling Betsy Burton and some of her partners are selling their majority interests in the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, UT, to Calvin Crosby, currently executive director of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Effective July 1, Crosby will join part-owner Anne Holman. Distribution Oxford University Press will move their US warehouse and fulfillment operations to Ingram Distribution Solutions this fall. OUP has serviced fulfillment through their own 190,000-square-foot warehouse in Cary, NC, which will close. OUP USA president Niko […]
People, Etc.
At the Workman imprint, Wendy Williams has joined as senior editor, with a focus on calendars. She was most recently senior editor at Sterling Publishing. Alisha Zucker has joined the children’s editorial department as senior editor, with a focus on curriculum titles. She was most recently executive editor of early childhood mathematics at Scholastic. Roxanne Jones has joined Grand Central as a publicity manager. She was previously at Harlequin. At Harper Children’s, Sam Fox is joining as director of digital marketing. He was previously brand marketer and director at Condé Nast. At Princeton University Press, Ken Barton has joined in the […]