Today we are live with the last major piece of the Publishers Marketplace redesign we began rolling out 10 months ago: A new look for our sitewide search engine, and therefore the search results from all of our different databases. The development team has worked hard on improving the results for mobile devices in particular. (We have updated the guidance/tips on how to use site search as well.) Separately, we have pushed an update to our AI-powered Agent Matcher, too. Filters let you adjust matches to agents that we know are open (or closed) to queries; and agents by experience […]
People 3/22
Strong Backlist Sales Can’t Offset Scholastic’s Seasonal Losses
Scholastic announced results for the fiscal third quarter ended February 29, with sales of $323.7 million, nearly even with $324.9 million a year ago. “Lower U.S. Book Clubs revenues of approximately $14.4 million related to the strategic repositioning of the business, were offset by strong trade publishing revenues in the U.S., Canada and the UK, which benefited from the sales of popular book series titles,” the company said in a release. Operating loss increased 26 percent to $(34.9) million, while adjusted EBITDA decreased 33 percent to (7.2) million. In Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution, the good news was that consolidated […]
NBCC Winners
Dylan Thomas Prize
The Dylan Thomas Prize announced finalists, with the winner to be named on May 16.
People 3/21
At PRH, Valerie Van Delft, senior vice president of logistics, will retire this August.