Publisher News

Binc grants encourage booksellers to attend regional shows; Find Waldo Local to be featured on MSNBC’s Your Business; SCIBA’s Goldman Scholarship winners announced; Changes made to Penguin Random House sales team

More than 1,000 authors have signed off on a letter to Amazon’s board of directors to request that each member look at Amazon’s actions against Hachette Book Group and consider whether they support them.

From November 3, 2014, through January 16, 2015, HarperCollins is offering a Holiday Express Shipping program for independent bookstores in the U.S. for all HarperCollins and HarperCollins Christian Publishing titles.

ICSC poll finds support for e-fairness at all-time high; Chase and Google to award small business grants; Study analyzes reading habits of Millennials; Man Booker Prize shortlist revealed; Neil Gaiman to present lifetime achievement award to Ursula Le Guin; Ellen Chodosh named director of NYU Press

Judith Appelbaum to be honored by BISG;  Kyle Zimmer named NBF’s Literarian Medalist; Dave Kliegman of Penguin Random House feted by Malaprop’s

Madeline McIntosh has been appointed president of the Penguin Publishing Group, which brings together the Penguin imprints Penguin Adult and Berkley/NAL under one leadership team.

Mitch Kaplan to announce National Book Award finalists on NPR; Winners of the American Poets Prizes revealed; Corporate communications changes announced at Penguin Random House; Ingram adds two distribution clients

Boston makes way for Ducklings Storytime Store at Faneuil Hall; Candlewick, Porter Square bring children’s books to farmer’s market; Knoxville’s Union Avenue Books thrives

National Book Award winners, finalists to appear at Miami Book Fair; German authors protest Amazon retaliation tactics; 2014 Hugo Award winners  announced; Louise Erdrich named winner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize; Lambda Literary Awards submission period opens

RosettaBooks inks deal with Ingram Publisher Services; Best Little Bookshop goes beta; Binc Foundation honored, names new Board members; Finalists for 2014 Thurber Prize announced

Starting August 20, booksellers can view a list of more than 450 banned and challenged titles via Ingram’s ipage®. Orders of 30 or more books per store entitle purchasers to a “Banned Books Week in a Box” display kit and additional discounts on initial and subsequent orders.

The HarperCollins Promotional Fund makes additional marketing dollars available to independent retailers for the company’s 2015 fiscal year, which began July 1, 2014.

Print book production numbers slowed in ’13; NEIBA, NAIBA announce rep award winners; Study shows trends in use of educational content among students, faculty; News Corp finalizes Harlequin acquisition; Simon & Schuster introduces video series; Straus, Nurnberg acquire Wallace Literary Agency

Indie stores experiment with bundling program; Powell’s reopens Green, Blue rooms after renovations; Monte Cristo Bookshop goes nonprofit; Find Waldo Local a success at Larkspur’s DIESEL

West Virginia collects $19 million in sales tax from online retailers; NAIBA seeks Independent Bookstore Day logo; Cape Henlopen school board does away with reading list; Macmillan expands public library e-lending pilot program