Publisher News

Voting extended for Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards; Former publishing CEOs buy Arcadia Publishing; Staff changes at Quirk, Viking, and Penguin; U.K.’s Waterstones bookstore chain sold; Triangle Award winners, Anna Dewdney Read Together Award winner, Edgar Allan Poe Award winners, James Beard Foundation Book Awards winners, MPIBA Reading the West shortlist announced

AAP announces CEO panels at BookExpo; IPG signs 10 new publishers; University Press of New England to shut down; L.A. Times Book Prize winners, SIBA book prize finalists, Lambda Literary honorees, MacDowell Colony fellows announced

W.W. Norton to launch Norton Young Readers; McGuire named new Atria publisher; HMH announces promotions in sales department; Megan Fishmann promoted to associate publisher, publicity director for Catapult; PEN America responds to festival participant’s rejection by U.S. immigration; Pulitzer Prize winners, New England Society Book Award finalists, Young Lions Fiction Award finalists, Man Booker International Prize shortlist announced

Book Rich Environments Initiative kicks off second year; Madeline McIntosh named CEO of Penguin Random House U.S.; Independent Booksellers Consortium seeks new executive director; Personnel changes at Workman; AUPresses issues principles on fighting censorship; BISG Lifetime Service Award, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist, Graywolf Press Africa Prize winner announced 

Lance Fensterman named president of Global ReedPop; MIBA introduces Midwest Bookseller of the Year Award; National Book Festival speakers announced; Publishers announce new distributors, acquisitions; Red Chair Press introduces One Elm Books; Court dismisses Lohan’s privacy claims; One Book, One New York voting underway; PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, PEN/Faulkner Award winners announced

NPR piece highlights indie bookstore resurgence; #KidLitMarchesforKids rallies children’s book community; Staff changes at HarperCollins, Philomel, S&S; Hans Christian Andersen Award, IBBY-Asahi Award, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist announced

Independent booksellers who are opening new stores or expanding to additional locations are now eligible for special discounts, dating, and co-op terms on all books published by Candlewick Press.

Viola Davis to appear at BookExpo; GLIBA, MIBA issue statement supporting University Press of Kentucky; Audie Award finalists for Book of the Year, National Book Critics Circle Award winners announced

BookExpo Audio Publishers Association Author Tea lineup announced; Tina Jordan leaves AAP; Whitney Hu joins National Book Foundation; Distribution changes announced at Hay House, Rutgers University Press; Advocacy groups publish comic book; Man Booker International Prize longlist, Publishing Triangle Award finalists, Tiptree Award winner announced

Bernie Sanders to appear at BookExpo 2018; Jonathan Karp named president, publisher of S&S adult publishing; HarperCollins buys AMACOM Books; Jennifer Egan named new PEN America president; B&N to open five new prototype stores; Emma Watson chooses Indie Next List pick Heart Berries; WWA’s Go West Book Display Contest commences; PEN/Faulkner finalists, Lambda Literary Award finalists, Story Prize winner announced

America’s Main Streets Contest begins; Changes at Running Press, Black Dog & Leventhal; Chicago Review Press, Triumph Books restructured; Mathical Prize winner, Lukas Prize shortlists announced

Yiannopoulos drops S&S suit; PEN World Voices Festival theme announced; Youngsuk “YS” Chi joins Ingram Board; Golden Man Booker Prize introduced for award’s 50th; PEN America honors literary award winners

Trump’s budget proposes arts funding cuts; Penguin Young Readers launches imprint for diverse books; Alexander named Mellon Foundation president; New hires at HUP, B&N; PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award goes to imprisoned journalists

Binc named co-beneficiary for San Francisco Writers’ Foundation auction; Book industry gathers at Sally Dedecker memorial; Oprah’s Book Club chooses An American Marriage; NBF’s new award for translated literature; Staff changes at SMP, Hachette Livre; Meryl Halls to become BA managing director; PEN America career achievement award winners; 2018 Audie Award finalists announced

Rakuten, Walmart partner for eReader, eBook, audiobook sales; Kwame Alexander to start imprint at HMH; Atria’s Judith Curr leaves S&S; Staff changes announced at PRH, Macmillan; Mary Ghikas named ALA’s executive director; PEN America Literary Awards finalists; Costa Book of the Year winner announced