Indigo ceo Heather Reisman spoke to BNN Bloomberg as part of the groundbreaking ceremonies for the University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre, funded by a $100 million donation from Reisman and her husband Gerry Schwartz. Reisman is more candid than she has been during recent Indigo investor calls in acknowledging that the first phase…
December Picks
Reese Witherspoon has chosen Denise Mina’s Conviction as her December book club pick. Jenn Bush Hager chose Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations as the December pick for the Today Show Book Club. Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for December is Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age (available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter collection) and…
Briefs: Neon Literary, Bloomsbury’s China JV, and More
Agency News Anna Sproul-Latimer and Kent Wolf have joined to launch Neon Literary, with offices in New York and Washington, DC. Sproul-Latimer has been at the Yoon Ross Agency for almost 15 years, and Wolf has been at the Friedrich Agency. They say in their announcement “it was the eventual realization that their clients were…
People, Etc.
Cecelia Cancellaro, founder of Word Creative Literary Services, will join Cambridge University Press in early December as senior editor in US and Latin American history, based in New York. Awards In the UK, the Costa Book Awards announced its shortlists in five categories. Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton, a finalist for the first novel prize, is…
Bookselling: BN Renegotiates Lease, More Holiday Shipping Offers
Barnes & Noble has been negotiating with their landlord in Coral Springs, FL over the renewal of their lease, which expires in February. By the landlord’s account, BN has said it cannot operate the 27,000-square-foot store profitably, and wants to renew for a store of only 12,000 to 13,000 square feet, at a lower lease…
Thanks, and Giving
Since PublishersMarketplace.com was started just over 18 years ago (a year and half or so after we created Publishers Lunch), our constant focus has been on doing more for our members all the time. This year we have spent a lot of effort on explaining ourselves better — through deal reporting tips and policies, a…