On the Open Book podcast, Simon & Schuster UK and International ceo Perminder Mann discusses her background in a working-class British Punjabi family, her winding career path, and her dedication to “flexibility, inclusion, and representation, not as buzzwords, but as lived experience.” When Mann became ceo at Bonnier Books UK, she implemented policies for flexible work, equal parental leave, pregnancy loss, and “clear commitments to inclusion and representation. And I did that not because it looks good on paper, but from my own personal experience.” “I believe people do their best work when they feel they belong,” she said. “I […]
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Part 2
With the launch of our latest Buzz Books anthology, we’re publishing our comprehensive fall/winter season preview. Today, our preview continues with part two of the season’s buzziest fiction titles, featuring debut and commericial. The preview will run in four parts, with nonfiction to follow later this week. You can sample some of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books: Fall/Winter 2026; they are noted with an asterisk. And please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change. Debut Meg Anderson, The Memory of Borrowed Books (Landmark, 10/6)* Sarah […]
Zoom Books Responds To Accusations of Selling Books For AI Scraping
Canadian company Zoom Books has responded to accusations that they are purchasing out of print books in bulk from bookstores to sell to AI companies for LLM training. They write in a statement to PL that the claims made in Demócrata that books purchased by Zoom Books from Spanish booksellers are being scraped for AI are “categorically false.” “To be unequivocally clear: Zoom Books does not digitize or destroy used or new books for the purpose of training AI models, nor for any other purpose,” writes the company. “Any claim or implication to the contrary is inaccurate.” They continue: “Our business […]
S&S Merges Lines Into A New Atria Gallery Publishing Group
Simon & Schuster will “align” the Atria and Gallery publishing groups, along with the Summit, Simon Element, and Adams Media imprints, to create a new Atria Gallery Publishing Group. Libby McGuire will become publisher and executive vice president of the group and continue to lead Atria. (She is also evp, director of Adult U.S. Content Coordination.) Gallery evp, publisher Jen Bergstrom, Summit evp, publisher Judy Clain, Simon Element vp, publisher Richard Rhorer, and Adams vp, publisher Karen Cooper will report to McGuire. Former ceo and current Simon Six publisher Jonathan Karp was the one to announce the news to employees […]
Distribution: IPG Adds Five Publishers
IPG will sell and distribute: Purple Diamond Press worldwide starting June 1; Editorial Rubio starting June 1; Granica Publishing in North America starting June 1; Armaenia Editorial starting June 1; and Pierrot Books in North American starting July 1.