Europa Editions is reprinting 40,000 copies of Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise. The publisher says reprint copies will start going out to retailers next week. Galgut won the Booker on Wednesday, after being shortlisted twice before.
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Bogaards to Leave Knopf, Publicity Is Centralized Across the Group
Paul Bogaards, Knopf’s longtime evp, publicity & marketing, and deputy publisher, will step down on January 1. He has been with the company for 32 years. Bogaards wrote in a press release, “My tenure there has been rewarding beyond measure. Sonny [Mehta], as most of you know, died in 2019, shortly before identifying Reagan [Arthur] as his successor. When we spoke of her appointment, he said to me, ‘Reagan is going to need your support and guidance, because this place can be tough.’ Sonny was always a master of understatement. When he was gone, I knew the mandate: keep the […]
Today At Noon at PM Discuss: National Book Foundation’s Ruth Dickey
Join Ruth Dickey online at this Publishers Marketplace link today at noon Eastern. The latest guest on our Discuss forum, Ruth will answer your questions about the National Book Awards in advance of its November 17th awards ceremony: how titles are submitted, the judging process, what the prizes entail, and more. You can also ask her about the many other programs the National Book Foundation sponsors.
Our Next Live Discuss Guest: Ruth Dickey, Executive Director, National Book Foundation
Join Ruth Dickey online at this Publishers Marketplace link Wednesday, November 3 at noon Eastern for your chance to get the inside scoop on the National Book Awards. The latest guest on our Discuss forum, Ruth will answer your questions about the awards in advance of its November 17th awards ceremony: how titles are submitted, the judging process, what the prizes entail, and more. You can also ask her about the many other programs the National Book Foundation sponsors. Just sign in and use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments, and Ruth will post back.
Penguin Random House Demographics Report Shows Modest Diversity Gains
Penguin Random House released its annual workforce demographics report, with the numbers showing modest improvement in diversity over last year. While the majority of employees both in non-warehouse and warehouse and jobs remain white — 74 percent, and 75 percent respectively — BIPOC employees accounted for 52 percent of new hires, up from 43 percent in 2020. Asian workers accounted for 17 percent of new hires (up from 9.9 percent); Hispanic workers accounted for 14 percent (up from 11.3 percent); and Black workers accounted for 15.9 percent (up from 13.9 percent ). Bi/Multi-racial hires fell from 7.9 to 4.8 percent. […]
Bestselling YA Authors Announce — And Then Withdraw — Realms of Ruin, As Community Says NFW to NFT Storyworld
Talk about disruption. It began as a splashy announcement tease: On Wednesday, young adult authors Marie Lu, Tahereh Mafi, Ransom Riggs, Adam Silvera, David Yoon, and Nicola Yoon declared in a deleted post on Instagram (and elsewhere) the imminent arrival on November 8 of Realms of Ruin, a “fantasy epic filled with dark magic, intrigue, and unique characters–launched online in a thrilling new way.” That new way, however, was quickly found to be less than thrilling among many people online. The plan was for community writing to be turned into “a robust collection of original character NFTs [non fungible tokens]…all […]