Publisher News

Rakuten, Walmart partner for eReader, eBook, audiobook sales; Kwame Alexander to start imprint at HMH; Atria’s Judith Curr leaves S&S; Staff changes announced at PRH, Macmillan; Mary Ghikas named ALA’s executive director; PEN America Literary Awards finalists; Costa Book of the Year winner announced

Bookselling Without Borders opens scholarship applications; New York Times book beat reporter cites indie bookstore comeback; NCAC program director reports on art censorship in Trump’s first year; Buzz Books 2018: Spring/Summer now available; S&S to distribute Regnery; Staff changes at Quarto Group, HarperCollins; National Book Critics Circle Award finalists, Edgar Award nominees announced

PBS announces key authors appearing on The Great American Read; WNBA seeks Pannell Award nominations; Three booksellers join MPIBA Board; PEN to honor Stephen King; Sourcebooks launches “Love Your Library Like a Carnegie!”; NBF elects board members; Proposed New York budget includes sales tax fairness measure; IngramSpark Ignite Awards honor two ABA members; National Jewish Book Award winners announced

#HarperCollinsLovesIndies will highlight another 50-plus indie bookstores on Facebook Live this year. In addition, staff will be on hand to make Facebook Live videos at next week’s Winter Institute.

PEN America and PEN Center USA to merge; Celebratory memorial planned for Strand’s Fred Bass; Changes at New York Times Books Desk; Hearst to sell Rodale Books to PRH; Promotions at Penguin Random House; PNBA Book Award winners, Story Prize finalists announced

AAUP gets new name; New York Times op-ed addresses sales tax fairness; Obama names favorite books of the year; Costa Book Award winners announced 

BookCon opens ticket sales; J.K. Rowling’s Harvard speech to go to print in 2015; Arizona anti-nudity law on hold; BA’s Tim Godfray honored; Brian Murray named PW Person of the Year

Penguin Random House to launch #GiveaBook campaign; Patriot Act reform falls short; Lennertz starts ExpressEdit.net; SIBA receives $40,000 grant; Ingram Publisher Services adds three clients; U.K. Books Are My Bag campaign boosts sales

Richard Flanagan wins Man Booker Prize for Fiction; First Amendment groups challenge Idaho school’s parental consent form; Eric Schwartz joins Columbia University Press as editorial director

France’s Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize for Literature; Mary Rasenberger named Authors Guild executive director; Policy research institute says Amazon should collect sales tax in Ohio; Free speech groups caution Waukesha School Board; Ingram Content Group opens POD facility in California; Winners of European Union Prize for Literature announced at Frankfurt

Egmont USA for sale; Authors Guild seeks investigation into Amazon’s practices; Persepolis reinstated in Ball-Chatham classrooms; Kirkus announces finalists for 2014 prize; John Kenney wins Thurber Prize for American Humor; National Book Foundation names 5 Under 35

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.