Quad announced Q4 2019 earnings February 18, with net sales of $1.1 billion, down 4.9 percent from a year ago–or 5.9 percent excluding sales from the Periscope acquisition. Adjusted EBITDA was also down, to $96 million from $118 million in 2018. Previously announced plans to sell the increasingly unprofitable book printing business are “progressing as…
Apple Tries to Block Just-Released German Book About Their App Store
Apple is inadvertently promoting a book just released in Germany by the former head of their German app store business: APP STORE CONFIDENTIAL, by Tom Sadowski, from Murmann Verlag. (They are a small business publisher, founded in 2004, and seem to do custom publishing as well.) The company’s lawyers reportedly wrote to Sadowski and his…
People, Etc.: Crichton Named Holt Editor-in-Chief
Sarah Crichton will return to Macmillan as editor in chief at Holt on April 6. She ran the Sarah Crichton Books imprint at Macmillan’s Farrar, Straus for 15 years, until the line was eliminated. Holt publisher Amy Einhorn writes, “Gifted in both fiction and nonfiction, she is a natural leader, and, most importantly, a passionate…
Russell’s My Dark Vanessa Tops March Library Reads
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell was the top pick for March’s Library Reads list. The rest of the picks: Darling Rose Gold, by Stephanie Wrobel The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel A Good Neighborhood, by Therese Anne Fowler If I Never Met You, by Mhairi McFarlane In Five Years, by Rebecca…
Bolton Teases More Book Details
John Bolton is on a little tease tour this week, appearing for an interview at Duke University on Monday (and moving on to Vanderbilt). He avoided answering controversial questions while suggesting the answers were in his forthcoming book, THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED: “You’ll love Chapter 14.” The manuscript has yet to receive government approval…
A New Vendor for Harper’s eBooks
Harper Collins had used Bookshout.com since 2016 as the platform for ebooks sold directly to customers from their websites, but recently the Harlequin site told customers that “BookShout closed their business in early 2020, ceasing all operations.” (In an earlier email, Harlequin had told customers, “On December 30th, 2019, Bookshout unexpectedly informed us of their…