After three Barnes & Noble locations in NYC finalized the chain’s first union contracts last week, the union at the Bloomfield, IL store ratified their contract as well. Workers at all four stores are represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The contract provides union healthcare coverage, safety provisions, and pay and job security.
Imprints: Red Tower Pairs with PRH UK
Independent publisher Entangled will expand their Red Tower imprint to the UK, in a partnership with PRH UK’s Penguin Michael Joseph division. The line launches this summer, with SHIELD OF SPARROWS by Devney Perry, and plans to grow to 12 titles a year. Entangled publisher Liz Pelletier says in the announcement: “At Entangled Publishing, our mission has always been to bring extraordinary stories to readers everywhere. This partnership with Penguin Michael Joseph marks an exciting new chapter for us, expanding the reach of Red Tower Books across the globe. “With Penguin Random House’s exceptional passion for books and distribution networks, […]
Obituaries: Melody Beattie, Geoff Nicholson, Anna Elisabeth Suter
Codependent No More author Melody Beattie, 76, died on February 27 of heart failure. After its publication in 1986, the book spent 129 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Spiegel & Grau took over the rights in 2022 and sold more than 400,000 copies. Publishing director Nicole Dewey said, “You could call her the mother of the self-help genre.” Novelist Geoff Nicholson, 71, died on January 18 of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Nicholson wrote 17 novels and 10 works of nonfiction, including 1997’s Bleeding London and 2023’s Walking on Thin Air: A Life’s Journey in 99 Steps. Former literary […]
Sally Kim On Shifting the Culture at Little, Brown
The NYT interviewed Little, Brown president and publisher Sally Kim about her first year running the division. Kim says she has hired 24 new people “which is reflected in every different department including art, marketing, publicity and editorial.” (She had laid off seven people early in her tenure, including several longstanding editors, and then Algonquin was put under the Little, Brown umbrella, resulting in more departures.) Other changes include cancelling the imprint’s big standing acquisition meeting, and restructuring meetings “so everybody gets a turn to speak” and “buying more books as paperbacks to make them more affordable to readers.” The […]
Distribution: Norton in China
Beginning May 1, Norton’s international English-language sales and marketing in mainland China will be handled by Princeton University Press.