Publisher News

S&S to launch Avid Reader Press; New illustrated books imprint for Little, Brown; Nick Offerman to host National Book Awards; PRH acquires majority stake in Brazil’s Companhia das Letras; B&N details reasons for Parneros firing in court filing; Promotions at Workman, Penguin Young Readers, Tom Doherty Associates; PW names top books of 2018; U.K.’s Orwell Foundation launches new prize; 2018 Kirkus Prize winners, SCIBA Book Award winners announced

Arcadia and Edelweiss+ have teamed up to offer indie booksellers easy access to hyper-local collections of titles unique to each specific store and community as part of the YourTown Store Match program.

Crown merges with Random House; Touchstone to migrate to Atria, Gallery; Consortium to distribute NAEYC; New member joins B&N board; Personnel changes at HarperCollins Children’s, S&S Children’s; Bookselling Ireland chair praises bookshops; Bookselling Without Borders Kickstarter hits goal; Independent We Stand deadline approaches; T.S. Eliot Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal finalists announced

Deutsch was one of several ABA member booksellers who attended the fair, including three who received the 2018 Bookselling Without Borders scholarship from Europa Editions.

When indie bookstores join together to participate in programs like Indies First, said ABA President Robert Sindelar, “we have the opportunity to remind our publishing partners of our collective muscle.”

Follett and Kwame Alexander launch All Books for All Kids; AUPresses becomes IPA associate member; #TurnItUp chosen as 2018 University Press Week theme; PEN America files suit against Trump; FX to develop Her Body and Other Parties for TV; Jonathan Merkh forms Forefront Books; Personnel changes at S&S, Atria; Man Booker winner, New Academy Prize winner, Thurber Prize finalists announced

S&S to open new warehouse; PRH announces expansion of Asian publishing endeavors; University of Chicago Press and De Gruyter form partnership; B&N considers sale; Canada’s Indigo opens first U.S. store; HarperCollins establishes Spanish acquisitions board; Amazon eliminates bonuses, stock for workers after raising minimum wage; HMH completes Riverside divestiture; B&T adds 10 new publishers; MacArthur Foundation announces new fellows

Booksellers can take advantage of numerous specials that publishers and university presses are offering on a wide array of frontlist and backlist titles in celebration of Indies First on Small Business Saturday.

Australian Booksellers Association names next CEO; Love Your Bookstore campaign announced; Small Business Saturday materials available; EU approves lower VAT for ebooks; Lerner to distribute Creston Books; Staff changes at Henry Holt, S&S Children’s, Putnam, Dutton, Berkley; New executive director for CLMP; Nobel sexual harassment scandal yields conviction; CBC announces Diversity Award winners; National Book Foundation announces Literature for Justice program; Changes for Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards; Carle Honors award winners announced; Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice finalists, Scotiabank Giller finalists announced

Ingram donating to booksellers, libraries post-Florence; Independent We Stand announces annual Indie Awards; IPG sets up new print facility; NCAC director pens op-ed; Penguin Young Readers and Scholastic to launch new imprints; Staff changes at Holt, Melville House, Ecco, Ingram, Penguin’s Viking Children’s Books, S&S; SPD, CLMP create Indie Bookseller Council; 2018 Man Booker Prize shortlist announced; Kirkus Prize finalists announced; Isabel Allende to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement; National Book Foundation announces 2018 “5 Under 35” list

For the seventh consecutive year, orders received from independent booksellers by 3:00 p.m. ET Monday through Friday will ship for arrival at booksellers’ doors within two days.

Bookselling Without Borders, a scholarship program for booksellers that aims to make the American book market more welcoming to international voices, just kicked off its 2019 crowdfunding campaign.