May 14 2020: Unit sales of print books continue to defy expectations that the coronavirus crisis will lead to a plunge in sales. In fact, just the opposite is occurring. Last week, unit sales of print books had their second consecutive week of double-digit growth over the previous ...
May 13 2020: Walker Books and its global subsidiaries, which include Candlewick Press, have been acquired by Trustbridge Global Media, the global children's content company formed in 2016 by growth equity firm Trustbridge Partners. Prior to the sale, Walker was majority-owned by ...
May 12 2020: Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster since 2008, died of a heart attack this morning. She was 71.
News of Reidy’s death was delivered to shocked S&S employees by Dennis Eulau, the company's executive v-p of operations and chief financial officer, who ...
May 09 2020: When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965 for fifteen months, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman...
...No one noticed the small craft leaving the harbour that evening. Skies were fair; only a ...
May 07 2020: Michael McClure, the young poet recruited to put together the famed Six Gallery readings in 1955 that launched the San Francisco Renaissance and the legend of the Beats, died Monday, May 4, at his home in the Oakland hills. He was 87.
May 04 2020: US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice.
The African-American author was honored for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the abuse of black boys at a juvenile reform school in Florida.
Whitehead, ...
Apr 30 2020: Unit sales of print books are proving to be surprisingly resilient despite the massive disruption to the economy caused by the coronavirus, rising 10% last week compared to the week ended April 18 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Sales were nearly flat with units...
Apr 24 2020: In a potential landmark ruling, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held this week that access to a basic minimum education “that can plausibly impart literacy” is a fundamental, Constitutionally protected right.
In a 2-1 ruling released on April 23, the court ...
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