Publisher News

IPG adds 23 publishers; PGW to distribute Canongate; PEN launches Make Space campaign; Reading the West Book Award, Folio Prize, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners announced; O. Henry Prize Stories announced

2017 Pannell Award winners revealed; Lerner to distribute Lantana; Simon & Schuster launches #WhatBeachWhatBook; Publishers Lunch releases Buzz Books; Nebula Award winners, CLMP Firecracker Award finalists announced

Through a partnership between Libro.fm and Pottermore, indie bookstores can now sell digital audiobooks of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and all seven titles in the Harry Potter series.

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation has announced that the industry’s leading publishers have committed significant financial support to help the organization provide financial assistance to booksellers facing unexpected challenges.

Candlewick Press is launching CHIRP Evergreen, an initiative that provides indie bookstores with a unique opportunity to reintroduce titles from Candlewick’s award-winning backlist to their customers.

Authors Guild online auction underway; Museum Store Association to launch holiday campaign; Ingram signs five publishers; Reading Group Choices releases title lists of readers’ favorites; Margarita Engle named Young People’s Poet Laureate; International Dylan Thomas Prize, Albertine Prize winners announced

Penguin Random House and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses are each inviting booksellers attending BookExpo 2017 to mix and mingle at parties on May 30.

Utah sales tax revenues up after Amazon rule change; Opposition to Amazon buy button rule; Wiley CEO resigns; Best Translated Book Award, Judith A. Markowitz Award, British Book Award winners announced; Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist revealed

Co-founded by husband-and-wife team Rob and Amanda Broder, Ripple Grove Press aims to publish beautifully illustrated and well-told children’s picture books.

Barbershop Books wins Innovations in Reading Prize; Ingram to distribute Fodor’s Travel; Consortium adds four publishers; B&N names CEO; HarperCollins launches #WhyIRead; Winners announced: Anna Dewdney Award, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Triangle Awards

Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari, a small press based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, publishes books on spirituality, health, astrology, the occult, and other New Age topics.

Man Booker announces shortlist; Ingram promotes, adds staff; Rich Thomas joins HarperCollins Children’s; YouTuber joins BookCon; Lambda Literary Awards to honor Woodson, Winterson; L.A. Times Book Prize winners

Best Children’s Books of the Year published; PRH launches #ProjectReadathon; Johns Hopkins University Press to support AAUP residencies; Books for a Better Life, Jackson Poetry Prize winners, Southern Book Prize finalists announced

The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses is inviting all booksellers attending BookExpo 2017 to the CLMP Small Press Mingle on Tuesday, May 30, at the organization’s offices in NYC.

Baker & Taylor’s special discount for ABA members on all children’s and young adult trade books ends this Friday, April 21.