Publishers Lunchcast: Recent Episodes
Publishers Lunch
The Kirkus Prize announced its winners; The Scotiabank Giller Prize announced its shortlist
Third Quarter Deals Ebb Overall, Gain At the Highest Level; Fosse Wins Nobel Prize for Literature; PRH UK Buys Hardie Grant UK
Literary Agents Face Low Pay, Supplement With Side Gigs; Managers to Decide on S&S's Return to Office Policies
Bomb Threat at The King's English Bookstore in Salt Lake City; Project Gutenberg Refines Automated Audiobook Creation
Publishers Test AI Tools for In-House Processes; Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlist
Still Another Lawsuit: Authors Guild Sues OpenAI In New York; Scribd Will Move eBooks and Audiobooks To New App
Murphy to Leave Harper; Stehlik to Add Oversight of Children's Division; National Book Awards Translated Literature and Poetry Longlists Announced
The National Book Awards Rescinds Drew Barrymore's Invitation To Host, NBA Longlist for Young People's Literature
Canadian Indigo leadership in shambles, Amazon issues artificial intelligence guidelines for KDP
Suzanne Herz to Leave PRH; Anchor to be Phased Out; Wiley's Q1 Sales Were "As Expected" After Reorganization; BAM Offers Same and Next-Day Delivery
Powell's Closed Monday as Workers Strike; Obituaries for Robert Abrams, Edith Grossman, Sarah Young; Acquisitions: Harriman House, and Scala
Amy Einhorn Leaves Holt to Become Publisher of Crown Fiction; Scribe Media Resumes Operations Amid Multiple Lawsuits
PRH Results for the First Six Months; Quarto Sales and Earnings Fall; Appeals Court Strikes Down "Mandatory Deposit" of Books with the LOC
BNED Adds Two to Board for Corporate Transformation; Union Workers Stage Walkout at Barnes & Noble In Hadley, MA
June Adult Sales Made Up for Declines in Children's; New Books Publishing August 22; Forthcoming: 'The Fall' by Michael Wolff
Judge Approves Internet Archive Permanent Injunction, Limits It to Works That Have eBook Editions
Proposed Internet Archive Judgment Would Bring Down Infringing Files Right Away; Harper sales and earnings fall after a tough year
KKR To Acquire S&S For $1.62 Billion; Simon & Schuster Maintains Sales, Grows Income In Second Quarter; Online Book Analyzer Taken Down After Backlash
Bloomsbury, AAP Mark the Death of Vaughan; Schroders Joins with FT As Business Book of the Year Award Sponsor
KKR Tipped As Likely Acquirer of Simon & Schuster For "About $1.65 Billion"; Bloomsbury USA President Adrienne Vaughan Dies In Boating Accident In Italy
August Auguries: The S Stands for Sale, Good Omens Graphic Novel Funded on Kickstarter; Penzler Publishers is launching Crime Ink
Lenders Keep Barnes & Noble Education Alive For Now, Require Board to Examine Sale or New Capital; Higher Ed Sales Continue To Decline at Pearson
Partners Endorse BISG's Campaign Against Metadata Pollution; Xoxopublishing Shuts Down for the "Indefinite Future"; Solid State Books Reaches Union Contract
Lagardere Publishing Continues Slight Gains, Despite Weakness at HBG; KKR Selling RBmedia to H.I.G. Capital; Acquisitions: Norwood House Press; Initiatives: Binc Incubator Pilot Program; August Library Reads
November's National Book Awards Ceremony to Feature Drew Barrymore, Oprah Winfrey; HC Union Files Grievance Over Termination of Unit Chair
Abrams Restructures Marketing and Publicity Departments; Draft2Digital Acquires Pre-Made Book Cover Site; Imprints: Harper Enfoque
AAP Trade Sales Were Flat in May, Despite Losses in Children's; IPG Trims Staff on Publishing and Distribution Sides; Open Road Launches Metadata Service
Layoffs at Penguin Random House Follow Their Retirement Offer; Bloomsbury Grows 9 Percent in First Quarter
BNED Delays Earnings Report As It Renegotiates Loans, Faces Possible Going Concern Warning; More B&Ns Relocate to Smaller Spaces
Actually Forthcoming: Britney Spears' 'The Woman in Me' to Publish In October; Simon & Schuster and Likewise Expand Partnership
Dealmaking Rebounded In the Second Quarter; Bookstat Posts Monthly Bestseller Lists; Forthcoming: The Vulnerables By Sigrid Nunez
Mississippi Law Banning Minors' Access To Digital Materials Goes Into Effect; Authors Sue Meta and OpenAI Over AI Training
Booktopia Issues Shares for Distro Center; Nash Officially Out as CEO; New Books Published July 4; More July Picks
USA Today Bestseller List Returns; Razorbill Merges With Putnam Children's; February Cyber Attack Hits Indigo's Results; Amazon Continues to Fight Minimum Shipping Fee in France
Hurowitz and Abu Dhabi-Based Mubadala Are Bidding for Simon & Schuster; 'The Nation' Will Relaunch 'Bookforum'; WH Smith Owed £1M to Employees
Vivendi Signs Deal to Sell Editis to IMI; Scribe’s Chief Experience Officer Meghan McCracken Resigns
Wiley to Divest Educational Businesses After Disappointing Year; Pagnamenta Joins Kneerim & Williams to Form New Agency, Calligraph; Obituary: Robert Gottlieb
European Commission Approves Vivendi's Purchase of Lagardere After Spinning Off Editis; Elizabeth Gilbert Removes Russia-Set Novel from Publication Schedule
Abrams Lays Off More Staff; Four Indigo Directors Resign; Reisman to Retire In August; PRH to Combine Production Departments; Former Scribe Media CEO JeVon McCormick Apologizes; B&N Union Square Unionizes
Behind the Minimum Wages at Indie Bookstores; Trade Sales Flat in March; Reese's Book Club Pick
WME Acquires Ross Yoon Agency; Authors Guild Adds AI Clauses To Model Contract; Lakeside Acquires Marquis; A new imprint for Paw Prints
Tartt's Agent Debunks Rumors of New Novel; BNED's Year Is Under Already Low Expectations; The Ripped Bodice Will Open A Store in Brooklyn
Trade Sales Fell 6.1 Percent In 2022, As Adult Fiction Rose to Become the Largest Segment; Scribe Employees Launch "Petition For Financial Justice"; Bloomsbury Records Record Sales and Earnings; WH Smith Bookstores Up 2 Percent
Those Fancy Large Language Models Were Trained On eBooks From Smashwords, Without Permission; Scribe Media Shuts Down, Lays Off Staff; ABA Continues to Add Members, With Slower Growth In Locations
AALA Day Keynote: Slow Progress At B&N; Imprints: Open Road's Re-Discovery Lit; International Booker Prize
Federal Government Warns GA Schools About Book Ban Discussions; UK Gets New Coffee-Sponsored Book Awards
Authors Guild Updates Statement On New Leaf Literary, Buzz Books Editors Panel Available to Stream, Forthcoming: Walter Isaacson's ELON MUSK
Pen America, PRH Sue FL County Over Book Bans; Hamessley Posts Statement About Departure From New Leaf; Last Reminder for Buzz Editors Panel Tonight
Disruptions Leave A Number of Children's Book Creators Looking for New Representation; B&N Children's & Young Adult Book Awards; Dylan Thomas Prize; Michael Lewis's GOING INFINITE forthcoming
Rutgers BNED Employees Win Union Vote; Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction Part 1
Glusman Steps Down As Norton Editor-In-Chief, with Gerstle to Take Over; Feb AAP Stats Show Major Gains in Audio; Calling Attention to Banned Books Lifts Them Up
Next Big Idea Tries Original Short Audiobooks; Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter Now Available to Download and Read; Forthcoming: A New Title By Oprah Winfrey and Arthur C. Brooks
Simon & Schuster Keeps Growing In Q1, As Paramount Acknowledges Sale Process Has "Restarted"; SPARE Drives Q1 for Penguin Random House; Jack Jensen to Step Down at Chronicle and Andrew Franklin to Step Back at Profile
All the President's Legal Deficiencies In Woodward Audio Suit; Australian Publisher Fagan Charges Allen & Unwin With Sexual Harassment; Avid Reader Launches Credits Page Campaign; Reese's Book Club Pick
Penguin Random House Makes Voluntary Separation Offer; TikTok Owner May Launch Publishing Company; Australian Publisher Challenges Allegations of Harassment; New Books Publishing May 2
Publishers and Internet Archive Make Slow Progress on Terms of Judgment; Next Buzz Books Editors Panel; May Book Club Picks
People: Dawn Davis Returns to S&S, 37 Ink; Women's Prize Shortlist; Odd Dot Partners with Build-A-Bear
Listening for Growth at LBF; French Publishing Professional Freed After London Arrest; People: Harmony and Rodale Expand Leadership Team; Zoro Becomes President
First day of the London Book Fair; French Rights Manager Arrested Before LBF; Lagardere Q1 results; Workers at B&N in Hadley, MA Announce Union Effort; HarperCollins Tests OverDrive's Bulk Loan Bundles for "High-Demand Titles"
Harry Potter Will Become A "Decade-Long" TV Series; NYPL Announces 2023 Cullman Center Fellows; Obituaries: Anne Perry, Bill Ott
Employees at Barnes & Noble Education's Rutgers Location Look to Become Chain's First Union Store; Ingram Plant Closure will Eliminate 270 Jobs
Future Commissions To Be Sold in Donadio & Olson Bankruptcy Auction; Deals Fell In the First Quarter, As Big Publishers Invested Less; Abrams Breaks Out Comics Into Separate Division
Amazon to Close Book Depository After Years of Losses; New Books Publishing April 4; April GMA Pick; NBF 5 Under 35
Bertelsmann announces results for the full year 2022; The Booker Prize has named its statuette "Iris"; Audie and Whiting Award winners announced; Storytel Acquires Finnish Audiobook Streaming Business
Publishers and Authors Win: The Internet Archive Is Guilty of "Wholesale Copying and Unauthorized Lending"
A Skeptical Judge Presses Internet Archive; Pearson Sells Money-Losing Online Learning Business
Co-Author Loberg Accepts Blame, As More Plagiarism Is Found In Agus's Three Earlier Books
January Trade Sales Rose 3.7 Percent, AAP Reports and AI generated material copyright decision
Bloomsbury Expects to Finish Fiscal Year with Better Results Than Forecast; Lagardere Board Approves Radio Spinoff; Call for Fall/Winter Season Preview Listings
Bernardini Sentencing Documents: "I still wanted to believe I was part of the industry"
Wiley 3rd quarter results and reorganization; Libro.fm expands; Baillie Gifford "Winner of Winners" shortlist
Penguin Random House Joins in Raising Starting Salaries; PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
S&S Book Recalled For Plagiarism; Stephen Elliot Settles Defamation Suit Against Moira Donegan
PRH Announces Reorganization, Creates Independent Crown Group Again; Andrews McMeel and Portfolio Drop Scott Adams
Indigo Employee Data Was Compromised; Europa Content In "Strategic Partnership" with APA; A Grinch Sequel
Forthcoming: Blackstone Publishing Acquires Crichton's "John Lange" Books; Puffin UK Defends Changes to Dahl Books; Bookselling: McNally Jackson Opens In Rockefeller Center
S&S has record year; Lagardere results; Class Action suit against Macmillan; Storytel results; Findaway Voices to halt AI learning licensing
Indie Authors Sign Petition Against Amazon's KDP Select Policy; Bookselling: More Barnes & Noble News
HarperCollins and union reach agreement, AAP reports 2022 trade sales decline, Harper trade sales down 14%
Women's Prize Launches Nonfiction Award; Bertlesmann Subsidiary Gruner + Jahr to Sell or Close 23 Magazines, Cut 500 Jobs
Non-Union Harper Employees Discuss Workload, In-House Morale, and Solidarity; New Books Publishing February 7;
Authors Place Press Settles Lawsuit with Authors Guild, Will Stop Publishing; Audiobook Grammy
PRH US CEO Madeline McIntosh to Step Down; HarperCollins to Cut Five Percent of North American Employees; Trump Sues Woodward and S&S For Publishing Audiobook without A License
Harper and union to begin mediation; ABA to use Bookshop buy buttons; PRH UK may close distro center for clients
Booktopia makes cuts; Trump threatens to sue Pomerantz; Excerpt from Steve Rubin's new book; Phenomenal Media Books launch
Amazon's New Ebook Return Policy to Take Effect Shortly; Buzz Books Spring/Summer Nonfiction Preview Part 2
November Trade Sales Fell 14 Percent, Prince Harry's memoir sales, Buzz Books nonfiction preview
Harper Union Discusses Bargaining, Pay, Union Security; Pearson to Cut Costs in 2023, Focused on Higher Ed; WH Smith Gains in Airport Stores, As High Street Still Slides Further; Buzz Books Spring/Summer Preview
RH's Gina Centrello to Retire; Record Breaking Sales for SPARE; Atria Cancels Colleen Hoover Coloring Book
Spare Opening Day Sales; 2022: The Year In Deals; Fourth Quarter Deals; Russian IBBY Award President Resigns Amid Criticism;
Manuscript Thief Bernardini Pleads Guilty to One Count of Wire Fraud; In Letter to Authors, Pietsch Addresses Lower Sales, Advocacy, and More
Apple Books Adds Digital Narration; RBmedia Acquisitions; BN to Open Store in Hamptons; IndieNext February List
UTA Acquires Fletcher & Company; DA Tells Victims Bernardini Will Plead Guilty on Friday; Reese's Book Club Pick; Silvers-Dudley Prizes
Strong Final Holiday Sales Week Surpasses 2021; Barnes & Noble to Switch More Locations; Free Trial at PM
Ingram to Shut Down Aerio; Decision to Close Bookforum Is "Unrelated to Penske Media"; PRH UK Gives Lowest Paid Staff 9% "Pay Awards"; Hachette Announces "30/30 Strategy" to Reduce Carbon Emissions
AALA Survey: Agents Express "Robust Support" for Harper Collins Strike; Scholastic Book Fairs Rise to 85% of Pre-Pandemic Levels, As Trade Slides 4 Percent
James Patterson to Co-Author Unfinished Crichton Novel; LibraryReads January List; The Strothman Agency forms alliance with Aevitas Creative Management
Literary Arts Emergency Fund Report: Nonprofits and Publishers Are Underfunded, Provide Great Value; Pallante Defends the Broad Protection and Innovation of Exclusive Rights Under Copyright
Vigliano Associates sues former clients; Harper union to hold strike rally; AP looks at publishing's "expressive" year.
Wiley Aims to Reduce Costs as Earnings Fell in Q2; Macmillan Reported Consumer Data Breach Following Summer's Security Incident; One Major New York Publisher Pays Starting Salary of $50K
BNED's Big Quarter Was Not So Big; Harper Collins Offers First Response to Union Strike; and more.
AAP Adult Sales Rose in September, As Children’s Fell and Returns Increased; Harper Collins Union Strike Continues
NYC's publishing industry report; Vivendi/Lagardere acquisition investigated; December monthly pick; January IndieNext list
People: Weinberg to Lead Workman Publishing; The Big Book, Now Final; Obituary: John Storey
Zombie eBook Class Action Suit Returns; Scholastic Buys Back Fewer Shares Than Allocated
Paramount Expected to Let Penguin Random House Deal for Simon & Schuster Expire, Rather Than Await Appeal; S&S Refunds "Hand-Signed" Copies of Bob Dylan's 'The Philosophy of Modern Song'
Amazon layoffs, round-up of Publishers Marketplace initiatives, and special discount offer
National Book Awards are announced; the Washington Post named its 10 Best Books of the Year; Zibby Bookshop to open
August Print Sales Fell 10 Percent; Kobo Plus Subscription Services Add Audiobooks; Tor Announces Dates for General Print Editions of Sanderson's Kickstarter Novels
McAveney Named CEO of Abrams As Jacobs Moves to Executive Chair, McCarthy Joins Open Road; Retail Rebounds at WH Smith, Indigo; Harper Union Begins Strike; Storytel Gets Breathing Room With Capital Raise that Includes Otava As New Shareholder
Amazon has a negative impact on Harper sales; RBMedia expands partnership with Chronicle
What's next for Simon & Schuster, Storytel shows improvement, and December Indie Next titles are announced.
HBG Employees Oppose Return-to-Office Plan, Pietsch Responds; HQN Relaunches as Canary Street Press
Lagardere Publishing Gains On Acquisitions, Foreign Exchange and Colleen Hoover, PRH releases diversity report, Macmillan Extends Remote-Friendly Work Policy
Bloomsbury's Top Properties Keep Growing, Spotify's Plans for Audiobook Growth Were Based on Magical Thinking About Apple's App Store, And More
Callisto Slashes Workforce Again; Prescott Prevails on Primary Charges of Plagiarism By Pasternak; New Books Publishing October 25; and More.
Pen America Addresses Complexities of Diversity Initiatives, Offers Recommendations; Wylie Reports on Rushdie's Wounds, Tells Tales About the Trial; B&N Book of the Year Finalists
Book Critics Build Careers, But Can't Make a Living, Colleen Hoover's New Book Sells Nearly One Million Units, Little, Brown Launches New Graphic Imprint for Children
NFTs face many obstacles in publishing, Doubleday's 125th anniversary, and a new venture called Electric Postcard Entertainment.
Frankfurt Deal Trends Show Strong Sales, with Fiction and Debuts Rising; Trade Sales Fell in July, But Still Beat 2019 Numbers
Harper Collins Union Votes for A Second Strike; The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, Forthcoming from Norton, Wins Booker Prize; Costco Eliminates Books In Hawaii, Alaska Stores
HarperCollins Institutes Layoffs, Hiring Freeze due to "Cost Pressures"; Hallmark Confirms Closure
Webtoon and Wattpad Team Launch Yonder Serialized Fiction App; Kensington Acquires Sci-fi/Fantasy Publisher Erewhon Books; MacArthur Fellows Named
Third Quarter Deal Trends; Barnes & Noble's Best Books of 2022; PRH's Two-Day Holiday Shipping Returns; a big Daily Rundown; and more.