Publisher News

Query Books launches Kickstarter to reprint forgotten LGBT classics; A Brief History of Seven Killings wins 2015 Man Booker Prize; Ingram Content Group to offer Global Connect in China, India, and Italy; 12 U.S. publishers sign PEN’s pledge to address Chinese censorship

Top online communities for small business owners; National Reading Group Month’s 2015 Great Group Reads; Ingram to distribute Humanoids Inc.; Consortium adds seven distribution clients; Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in Literature; Keen Communications acquires Adventure Publications

ABA’s 11th annual Winter Institute is made possible by the generous support of Ingram Content Group, the event’s lead sponsor, and additional support from more than 70 publishers large and small.

The Perseus Books Group has announced an agreement with FedEx that will significantly improve shipments to bookstores and other outlets nationwide.

SBA offers EMV card webinar; Schumacher wins Thurber Prize; We Need Diverse Books to present first Walter Dean Myers Award; 23 publishers sign deals with IPG; National Book Foundation announces 2015 “5 under 35” honorees; 2015 Kirkus Prize finalists announced; NetGalley introduces “Wish Granting”; Edelweiss partners with DOGObooks; HarperCollins forms HarperCollins Italia 

PEN Center USA 2015 Literary Award winners announced; Pearson to hold onto Penguin Random House until 2017; Ingram Publisher Services adds five new clients; Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 shortlist revealed; ASTRA names new president; Authors Guild survey finds members’ incomes down 30 percent since 2009

Perseus Books Group back on the market; WNDB announces winner of first short story contest; Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition to honor Joyce Meskis

Hugo Award winners, Thurber Prize finalists announced; BISG reveals shortlists for most valuable volunteer, industry champion; HarperCollins India gets new CEO; Mississippi Book Festival exceeds expectations; IPS adds three publishers; Campaign asks bloggers to visit their local indie bookstores 

Find Waldo Local to return for fifth year; SIBA welcomes new and returning board members; BISG announces 2015 Lifetime Service Award recipient; University of Akron Press to reopen

Texas-Amazon sales tax deal beneficial to state; Bodleian Library Publishing launches children’s imprint; Macmillan’s Sargent promoted at Holtzbrinck; Vatican official translates Diary of a Wimpy Kid into Latin; Columbia University Press to cease distribution of Dalkey Archive; Bookmasters signs distribution deals with Paragon House, Flame Tree Publishing

Binc blog to cover qualifying events for bookseller assistance; NAIBA announces 2015 award winners; Alice Award shortlist revealed; HarperCollins, Ediouro Group establish HarperCollins Brasil

For every trade copy of Leanne Brown’s cookbook Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day sold, Workman Publishing will donate a second copy to a person or family experiencing food insecurity.

NYC Bookseller Social to take place at Housing Works; Trafalgar Square signs five new publishers; Man Booker International Prize to focus on books in translation

On Friday, July 10, the Wall Street Journal and the U.K.’s the Guardian will offer an online preview of the first chapter of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman. The novel goes on sale on July 14.

BISG seeks nominations for Industry Champion and Innovation Awards; WNDB scholarship winners to receive free membership in children’s literary society; PEN posts summary of Emerging Writers Prize-winning work