On the Read Smart podcast from the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, Barnes & Noble ceo James Daunt and Grove Atlantic ceo and publisher Morgan Entrekin discussed how the last 18 months affected their businesses, selling books across the political divide, and how young adults enjoy physical books. As always, Daunt was positive about how […]
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Honoring Mehta and Frank, Writers’ Voices, and Readers
Knopf executive editor Jonathan Segal remembers his colleagues Sonny Mehta and Dan Frank for their “enthusiastic, expansive vision for American literary life” in the Atlantic. And he honors their legacy of focusing on readers to examine the larger moment in publishing: “Readers want the widest possible choice, and the choice is greatest, and the culture […]
This Week’s Discuss Guest: Agent and Attorney Jesseca Salky
Join agent and attorney Jesseca Salky to ask questions about legal issues that face authors and agents at noon on Wednesday, May 5 as our next weekly AMA guest on the PM forum Discuss. Feel free to post your questions for Jesseca in advance; the discussion will happen at this link. This is a straight forward, […]
S&S CEO Jonathan Karp Explains Decision Not to Distribute Mattingly Book
Simon & Schuster president and ceo Jonathan Karp wrote a letter to employees on Friday, explaining the publisher’s decision not to distribute Post Hill Press’ forthcoming book by Louisville police officer Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers who shot Breonna Taylor. Karp writes that S&S first became aware of the title through news reports beginning […]
New Editor PSA: Israel on Instagram Live
Recently-hired Simon & Schuster senior editor Yahdon Israel addressed prospective authors directly on Instagram Live Wednesday afternoon (recorded here), “Letting you know who I am and what I really do.” As he noted, his first wave of submissions “operated in a framework of how publishing has existed. In other words, you are pitching me imagining […]
PRH Launches Voiceover Casting Platform to the Public
Penguin Random House Audio today launched a voiceover casting platform, Ahab, to make it easier for audio content creators to hire voice actors. Ahab was originally developed as an internal tool at PRH, first used in the US and then adopted by PRH audio teams internationally. Now its creators, svp of content production Dan Zitt […]