On Tuesday, Penguin Random House released their social impact report, their “global commitment to serving our communities beyond the books we publish,” which shares programming highlights and data between January 1, 2021 – July 1, 2022. The initiative has three pillars: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Environment & Sustainability, and Free Expression & Joy of Reading. As part of their DEI goals, PRH U.S. updated its workforce demographics to reflect the staff as of October 2021. Among non-warehouse staff, 73 percent identify as women, 26 percent as men, and 0.5 percent as nonbinary. White staffers make up 74 percent of the […]
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Macmillan Resumes Operations
Macmillan has reported significant progress in recovering from the cyber attack in late June resulting in “encryption of certain files on our network” that led them to take their computer systems offline. The publisher’s US warehouse resumed operations on Monday, July 4, after being unable to process orders for over a week. They now report full functionality, including “order processing, shipping, and receiving.” The company said in a statement: “Additional resources are being dedicated to quickly work through the backlog of orders submitted while our systems were down and we do not anticipate the need to move any on-sale dates […]
Macmillan US Accepting, Not Processing Orders As Systems Continue to Return
Macmillan released another statement on Friday updating their work to restore their systems after last weekend’s “security incident, which involves the encryption of certain files on our network.” The Pan Macmillan UK warehouse “resumed operations” on June 28. In the US, “we are accepting orders electronically, but are unable to process them at this time.” As we reported yesterday, email and Google apps functionality is being restored to US employees on a rolling basis — which, as some employees underscored in online posts, means that not everyone has been reconnected yet, in case you have been waiting to hear from […]
Macmillan Slowly Goes Back Online
According to various Twitter posts, some Macmillan employees are back online after a security incident shut down their systems in the US and UK this week. The roll out gives those staffers access to email, which is run through Gmail, but they may not be able to use systems outside of the Google suite.
S&S Gives Away Two Books For “A Country Divided”
Simon & Schuster is giving away digital editions of two books intended to aid conversation in “a country divided,” according to a memo to staff from ceo Jonathan Karp. As of today, ebook and digital audio editions of Amanda Ripley’s High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out and Anna Sale’s Let’s Talk About Hard Things: The Life-Changing Conversations That Connect Us are available for free on retailers including Amazon, B&N, Apple, Google Play, and Libro.fm until July 31. (A disclaimer on the S&S website says that “end date may vary by retailer.”) In a posted video, […]
Macmillan Closed For Security Incident
Macmillan is closed today for an unspecified “security incident” that occurred on Saturday. They write in a statement: “Macmillan became aware of a security incident that impacted our servers and internal systems. While we immediately responded to secure the threat, our work is ongoing. Out of an abundance of caution, we have closed our offices Monday, June 27 to allow us time to continue our investigation, and are working diligently with third-parties to return to a secure working environment.”