Publisher News

Thirty prospective and existing booksellers attend Paz workshop; Amazon to open bookstore in Chicago; German publishers, booksellers join petition for free expression in Turkey; Penguin Random House introduces Subway Reads; Globe Pequot launches Lone Star Books; Pen Center USA announces award winners; Wendell Berry to receive Voice of the Heartland Award; Thurber Prize finalists, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award winners announced

Creston Books, a small children’s book publisher in Berkeley, California, produces quality picture books and middle grade titles, at least a third of which are by debut authors.

B&N announces CEO’s departure; Amazon to start collecting sales tax in Alabama; PEN/Nabokov Award revived to honor international writers; Christian Robinson to illustrate 2017 Children’s Book Week poster; Sesame Street and Running Press team up

Oprah’s Book Club selects Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad; Hefner First Amendment Awards seeking nominations; NAIBA names Ian Doherty sales rep of year; Library of Congress National Book Festival to feature 120 authors, illustrators; S&S to distribute Ryland, Peters & Small; Tracy Nelson promoted to S&S director of retail field sales

Hastings Entertainment to close all stores; Ingram launches Ingram Academic Services; IPG to distribute five new publishers; Hachette Book Group reorganizes sales staff; 800-CEO-READ appoints new CEO; Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards winners announced

Candlewick to publish interactive tie-ins to J.K. Rowling movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; IPG acquires INscribe Digital; Simon &Schuster to distribute Hazelden Publishing; WNBA announces new executive officers; SCIBA Book Award finalists announced; PEN America urges presidential candidates to provide open environment for journalists

Senate confirms Carla Hayden as Librarian of Congress; NEA Big Read announces new focus; Christopher Myers to launch imprint with Random House Children’s Books; Carl Lennertz named Children’s Book Council executive director; Inaugural edition of Buzz Books: Romance released; AAP survey reveals book industry net revenue of $28 billion in 2015; Malaprop’s owner discusses post-H.B. 2 decline in business; Longlist for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize announced; PEN America introduces PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

For a chance to win Europa Editions’ International Book Fair Scholarship to this October’s Frankfurt Book Fair, bookstores must notify the publisher by July 30 of their plans to host an event in support of the November 1 launch of Elena Ferrante’s two new books.

Harlequin’s MIRA to launch literary fiction imprint; Amazon rumored to plan bricks-and-mortar bookstore for NYC; 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize winners announced

Darrin Pratt to lead Association of American University Presses; Sara Nelson to join HarperCollins; Barnes & Noble launches self-publishing platform

Binc Foundation names new development director; Amazon to open third brick-and-mortar bookstore; Patricia Hespanha appointed executive director of HarperCollins Brasil; Scholastic to publish new edition of Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts; Fodor’s Travel sold to Internet Brands 

We Need Diverse Books announces 2016 internship grant winners; BookCon expands to New York Comic Con; Salvador, Brazil, indie raising funds to remain open; Perseus moves Seal Press from Avalon to Da Capo Press; Hastings Entertainment files for bankruptcy; Finalists announced for Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

Rakuten to close marketplaces in U.K., Spain; Ian Hudson named CEO of DK; James Patterson launches BookShots; HarperCollins produces Facebook Live daily programming; National Book Foundation elects two new members; Griffin Poetry Prize, Lambda Literary Award winners announced

Lerner Publisher Services to distribute Lorimer Children & Teens; Macmillan buys e-book platform Pronoun; 2016 Children’s Choices List announced; Ostrovsky receives Orwell Prize; Suzanne Collins wins Author’s Guild Award for Distinguished Service

IPG to import Cuban books; University of Georgia Press to outsource distribution to Longleaf; Bloomsbury to restructure, shift focus to non-consumer books; Isabel Allende to receive PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award; 2016 O. Henry Prize stories announced