New Imprints

Amidst a steadily declining market for children’s books, particularly in hardcover, Harlequin Trade Publishing said it “has made the difficult, strategic decision to close the Inkyard Press imprint and transition the titles to Harper Collins Children’s Books.” They note: “Current market conditions have posed a variety of challenges for the business, which has been acutely felt in the YA/middle grade space with a shifting retail landscape, reduced distribution, and higher production costs in a price-sensitive segment.” Inkyard Press employees will be leaving the company August 1, including at least 5 people named in an internal memo. With the move, they […]

Wharton School Press (WSP), the book publishing arm of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is now an imprint of the University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). This follows a two-year licensing and distribution partnership between the two presses. WSP publisher Shannon Berning says in the release, “It is a tremendous opportunity to expand on our partnership with Penn Press. Penn Press’s deep knowledge of book publishing and the strategic mission alignment between our organizations will enable Wharton School Press to grow its publishing list and expand the reach of its books as well as Wharton faculty research.”

Penguin Random House is launching a new pop-comics imprint, Inklore, that will publish “manga, manhua, manhwa, webcomics adaptations, and light novels” in collaboration with Del Rey UK. They write in a release that the Inklore “will be a pop-comics imprint celebrating the most popular, fan-driven tropes in visual storytelling, with a focus on digital-to-print licensed publishing in the romance, fantasy, science fiction, horror, and slice-of-life genres.” Keith Clayton, vp & deputy publisher, Random House Worlds will lead the imprint in the US. Rebecca Taylor will serve as editorial director. Ben Brusey, publishing director at Century, will head the UK team, […]

Baker & Taylor’s Paw Prints Publishing will add a new imprint this fall called Paw Prints Readers. “Paw Prints Readers will publish works exploring diverse cultures and backgrounds,” the publisher says in a release. “Emerging readers will evolve through Paw Prints Readers’ four-leveled program aimed at ages four through seven and up.” The imprint will launch with two new series and seven titles in English and Spanish including:  Liline & Pepper by Samanka Dumond; Jeet and Fudge by Amandeep Kochar; and Queens of STEAM by Mari Bolte.

This fall Ten Speed Press will launch Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint dedicated to publishing graphic “literary adaptations, global webcomics, biography, memoir, history, how-to, fiction, and licensed entertainment titles.” The first book, a graphic adaptation of Hide by Kiersten White, will be released on September 12, followed by five other titles that season: an adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic novel Watership Down; George R. R. Martin and Raya Golden’s Voyaging, Volume One; Nora Krug’s Diaries of War; Tom Scioli’s Stan Lee biography I Am Stan; and Julio Anta and Yasmín Flores Montañez’s Sí, Se Puede: The Latino Heroes Who Changed […]