First Quarter Sales Rose 3% at HBG
Good performances at its English-language divisions, including a 3% gain at Hachette Book Group, helped to increase first-quarter sales at Lagardère Publishing to €576 million, a 1.1% gain over 2023. more...
Book Deals: Week of April 22, 2024
Summit takes ‘McSweeney’s’ publisher Amanda Uhle’s searing family memoir, Delacorte lands Elle Kennedy’s debut YA thriller, and more. more...
Poetry Foundation Offers Aid to SPD Presses as the Search for New Homes Continues
The Poetry Foundation is funding a new grant program to help presses, while more than 70 former Small Press Distribution clients have found new distribution partners. more...PEN America Cancels 2024 Literary Awards Ceremony
Following mass withdrawals of books from consideration, PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, previously slated for April 29. Two cash prizes will still be conferred, and the $75,000 purse accompanying the PEN/Stein Book Award will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. more...and more.
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ObituariesJanet Reid, Influential Publishing Blogger and Literary Agent, Dies
Reid's blogs, 'Query Shark' and 'Miss Snark,' were widely read destinations for frank commentary on the publishing industry and the querying process. After a more than 20-year career as an agent, she died after a brief illness on April 14.
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Publisher News
Mystery Writers of America Celebrates 2024 Edgar Award Winners
The winners—including James Lee Burke, who won the award for Best Novel, and Linda Castillo, who took home two awards—were announced at the 78th annual Edgar Awards Banquet, held on May 1 at the Manhattan Marriott Marquis in New York City.
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Publisher News
Innovators Share 'Disruptive' Ideas at PubU 2024
Panelists from She Writes Press, Microcosm Publishing, Kickstarter, and Cake Creative spoke to the Independent Book Publishers Association's theme of 'Rise and Disrupt' at its annual conference last weekend.
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Financial Reporting
Full Steam Ahead for Amazon in Strong First Quarter
Driven by its cloud computing unit, sales and earnings at Amazon posted big first-quarter gains this year.
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Religion
'All My Knotted-Up Life' by Beth Moore Named Christian Book of the Year
The selection of Moore's memoir as Book of the Year was one of a dozen award winners at the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's 50th anniversary celebration, which took place in Chicago this week.
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Publisher News
IBPA Rebrands Annual Book Award, Adds DEI Categories
The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards, which honor titles in 57 categories, will be renamed the IBPA Book Awards, and will celebrate books across seven additional, identity-inclusive categories. IBPA also established a new Jan Nathan Lifetime Achievement Award in memory of its late founder.
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Religion
Latasha Morrison: 'God Created Diversity'
PW talks with activist and author Morrison about her goals for 'Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration,' which will be released by WaterBrook May 21.
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Religion
Religion Book Deals: May 1, 2024
Baker Books signs Hobby Lobby founder David Green, Brazos takes Nijay K. Gupta's exploration of the Apostle Paul, and more.
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Shows & Events
At PubU 2024, IBPA Members Consider Distribution and B&N
This year's Publishing University drew 325 IBPA members who heard a keynote address by speakers from IPG and Barnes & Noble who discussed how publishers can work with each company to obtain optimum results. The conference was held from April 26–27 in Denver.
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Obituaries
Literary Agent Richard Parks Dies at 83
Parks, who ran his own eponymous literary agency for more than 35 years, counted Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Carroll, and Susan Straight among his clients. He died of complications from dementia on April 23.
