Dec 31 2019: Publishing giant Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief of Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, died December 30 in New York City. He was 77.
Although his name may not be familiar, Mehta was not merely an individual reader in a single vacuum. As an ...
Dec 30 2019: If you've already made your way through President Barack Obama's summer reading list, and you're waiting for anticipated new releases in 2020, get ready to add some more books to your stack—because the former President just released his annual list of favorite books. ...
Dec 30 2019: A dispute over a racism accusation and how it was handled have upended the romance writers’ community, with best-selling novelists speaking out against the Romance Writers of America and most of the powerful, 9,000-member trade organization’s board resigning in the last...
Dec 21 2019: In the summer of 2018, Putnam published an unusual debut novel by a retired wildlife biologist named Delia Owens. The book, which had an odd title and didn’t fit neatly into any genre, hardly seemed destined to be a blockbuster, so Putnam printed about 28,000 copies.
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Dec 20 2019: Over the course of a wildly creative career, Dav Pilkey has written, drawn, and cocreated more than 60 books that have thrilled generations of children with goofy, gross-out humor and genuine empathy. He has a distinct talent for connecting with his readers and their ...
Dec 19 2019: In a press release this week, the Association of American Publishers shared the concerns of more than 125 scholarly society and research organizations in opposition to a potential Trump administration executive order that could potentially achieve something with the ...
Dec 19 2019: E.L. James’s irresistibly salacious novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which morphed from web-published fan fiction into a blockbuster book and movie franchise, is the bestselling book in the U.S. book market over the past decade, according to NPD BookScan. The title sold 15.2...
Dec 18 2019: Pearson, the U.K. publishing company that merged its Penguin subsidiary with Bertelsmann's Random House in 2012 to create Penguin Random House, is selling its remaining 25% of PRH to Bertelsmann, which will become sole owner, the Bookseller reported. The sale is ...
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