Publisher News

Last call for PW bookstore, rep award nominations; Peterson’s acquires B.E.S. Publishing; Bloomsbury acquires Oberon Books; Dav Pilkey named PW’s Person of the Year; Malcolm Margolin wins Jack D. Rittenhouse Award; Nancy Olson Bookseller Award winners named; PEN Translates awards announced

The 2020 Winter Institute in Baltimore will feature a wide array of parties and receptions where booksellers, publishers, and authors can socialize throughout the four-day event.

Julia Cowlishaw named Vroman’s, Book Soup CEO; Shelf interviews incoming ABA CEO Allison Hill; Trump administration suspends December 15 tariffs; White paper offered on FedEx and UPS rate increase; Libro.fm touts audiobooks as a green gift; NPD names bestselling book of decade; Pearson sells remaining PRH stake to Bertelsmann; Simon & Schuster to distribute Manning; IPG to distribute former Time Books Inc. imprint and Océana Travesía; Personnel changes at Viz Media, HMH; Oprah to receive Poets & Writers’ Leadership Award; PEN Literary Award, International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlists announced; 2019 Business Book Award, L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize, special Edgar Award winners announced; NAIBA names Winter Institute scholarship winner

NetGalley introduces audio excerpts; S&S parent company CBS merges with Viacom; Personnel changes at Books-A-Million, Vintage/Anchor, Waterbrook and Multnomah, Knopf and Pantheon, St. Martin’s; Ruth Rendell Award, First Novel Prize winners announced; John Leonard Prize for Best First Book finalists announced

Real People Monday breaks Libro.fm records; NYT studies Amazon’s effect on Baltimore; Nominations open for Anna Dewdney Read Together Award; Quarto to reactivate Frances Lincoln, Aurum Press; Personnel changes at Sourcebooks, Scribner, Workman; CBC Diversity Outstanding Achievement Awards, FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, Royal Dragonfly Book Awards winners announced; Wingate Prize longlist announced

Booksellers can book an appointment now to meet with any of the 19 publishing companies taking part in this new Winter Institute program.

The calendar, updated each week, features books with added value, such as signed copies and exclusive merchandise, to entice customers to order from their local indie bookstore. 

Previously, Simon & Schuster’s rapid replenishment program served only West Coast booksellers.

Children’s Book Week 2020 plans announced; UPS, FedEx rate increases announced; HMH announces new imprint; Casemate Group to distribute seven new publishers; BookTube episode two now streaming; Personnel changes at Poetry Society of America, HarperCollins, Henry Holt; New York Times 10 Best Books of 2019 announced; RNA Industry Award winners announced 

Rapid replenishment offers for the holidays are currently available from Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Sourcebooks.

James Patterson to receive National Humanities Medal; Baker & Taylor to distribute Tachyon Publications; Personnel changes at Random House, New Press, Harper Christian, Holiday House, Abrams; Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Goldsmiths Prize, Cundill History Prize winners announced; 2020 PNBA Book Awards, Foyles Books of the Year shortlists announced; Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist announced