Yezanira Venecia has joined Soho Press as assistant editor acquiring for the Soho Crime imprint. She was previously at Skyhorse Publishing. Shannon Fabricant has been promoted to executive editor at Running Press; Britny Brooks to associate editor; and Marissa Raybuck and Rachel Peckman to designer. Kara Thornton has been promoted to assistant director of publicity,…
McGraw Hill Reports Sales Down, Earnings Up in Third Fiscal Quarter
McGraw Hill reported results for their fiscal third quarter ended December 31, 2020, with sales of $363 million, compared to $365 million the previous period. Improvements in higher ed and K-12 were not enough to offset declining sales in the international and global professional businesses. Earnings improved, as adjusted EBITDA registered $565,000, compared to a…
Bookscan Curious?
For literary agents interested in the subscription plans to Bookscan and PubTrack Digital that we offer in conjunction with NPD Books, tomorrow we are holding our first-ever webinar with the NPD. Together we’ll provide an overview of the available plans and NPD will offer a live demo and take questions. If you’re interested in an…
New Books Publishing February 23
This week, a smaller selection of new books publishing includes Jennifer Ryan’s The Kitchen Front, a Library Reads selection, as well as a new biography of Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee. 9 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-23 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_February_/218851 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-23 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_February_/218852 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and…
People, Etc.
At Little, Brown, Lena Little has been promoted to director of publicity; Katharine Myers to senior director of publicity; Pam Brown to executive director of marketing; Juliana Horbachevsky to associate director of publicity, Spark and Voracious; and Sareena Kamath and Elizabeth Gassman both move up to assistant editor. At James Patterson, Denise Roy becomes editorial…
Skyhorse Claims Use of Woody’s Memoir in New HBO Series is Infringement
Skyhorse Publishing asserts that the use of clips from the audiobook version of Woody Allen’s 2020 memoir Apropos of Nothing in HBO’s new Woody Allen docuseries, Allen v. Farrow infringes the copyrights in the work. The company told Deadline, “We believe that its unauthorized use of the audiobook is clear, willful infringement under existing legal…