Barnes & Noble will close a Paper Source warehouse in Forest Park, IL on April 1, eliminating 107 jobs, NBC Chicago reports. The lease on the warehouse expires at the beginning of 2026. “We have to vacate and have started the process with all our employees about the closure.” B&N senior director of store planning and design Janine Flanigan said. “As a retailer whose business is especially concentrated in the holiday period, we have to make the move in the summer to be able to meet the seasonality of the year-end.” The bookstore chain bought the stationery retailer out of […]
Imprints: Swift Water Books, Tilted Axis
Penguin Random House Canada’s Tundra Book Group is launching a new children’s imprint called Swift Water Books, publishing titles across picture books, graphic novels, middle grade and young adult fiction, and more. Led by author David A. Robertson, who is a member of Norway House Cree Nation, Swift Water will feature “the work of emerging Indigenous talent alongside established and celebrated Indigenous voices.” The imprint is named in honor of Robertson’s father. “He used to call the rivers around his ancestral home Swift Water,” says Robertson in a release. First titles will appear in spring 2026 and will include HERE […]
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Jon Yaged, Sarah Jessica Parker to Receive PEN America Awards
Sarah Jessica Parker will receive PEN America’s Literary Service Award, given to “a writer or advocate who has served the literary community through their words or work,” the AP reports. PEN co-ceo Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf said in a statement, “We are now at a crisis point with books by underrepresented writers being pulled from school libraries and classrooms. Sarah Jessica Parker is pushing back against these bans as an indispensable defender of the freedom to read and by shining a light on exceptional new voices of American contemporary literature through her publishing imprint SJP Lit.” Macmillan ceo Jon Yaged will […]
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Imprints: 12:01 Books; Mischief Books and Mayhem Books
Atria and Emily Bestler Books are launching a new horror imprint, 12:01 Books which aims to “develop and publish a carefully curated list of horror novels, working with emerging and established creators and authors to launch compelling books and films.” The imprint is a partnership with Scott Glassgold founder and producer of 12:01 Films and Emily Bestler, svp, editor-in-chief and publisher of Emily Bestler Books. Liz Parker, managing partner of Verve, negotiated the deal. Glassgold is currently producing film adaptations of two Emily Bestler Books titles, Marcus Kliewer’s WE USED TO LIVE HERE, and WILDERNESS REFORM by Matt Query and […]