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Mar 02 2020
Although the London Book Fair says it will take place next week, since Friday, the U.S. operations of Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette and Ingram have indicated that they won't attend this year. In addition, some parts of Penguin Random House U.S. aren't attending; for others, the choice to attend is up to individual staff members. Among other companies dropping out of this year's fair are OverDrive and Amazon, and many other potential attendees from the U.S. are reconsidering travel plans, in part because of fears of being quarantined either in the U.K. or upon returning to the U.S.
Also over the weekend, Livre Paris, which was to be held March 20-23, has been cancelled, Livre Hebdo reported, a decision made after the French government on Saturday banned gatherings of more than 5,000 people in a confined space. The book fair is run by Reed Exhibitions, which runs the London Book Fair.
Update: With most of their large exhibitors choosing not to attend, Reed Exhibitions announced on March 3 that they had canceled the London Book Fair. The Leipzig Book Fair and Bologna Book Fair have been postponed.
Jan 08 2018
Intense demand for Fire & Fury has caught its publisher, Henry Holt, off guard as the Macmillan imprint scrambles to get copies into the marketplace.
Gauging a book's traction in the marketplace and setting its print run is, arguably, one of the trickiest aspects of the publishing process. And Holt, in this instance, underestimated demand significantly.
Although Holt is reordering as fast as it can the worry is that it may lose sales because of the current unavailability of the book. Competition is also coming. Two other books are due to publish next week--David Cay Johnston's It's Even Worse Than You Think (Simon & Schuster) and David Frum's Trumpocracy (HarperCollins)--are set to hit stores on January 16.
Mar 07 2017
HarperCollins is launching a global campaign to celebrate the company's 200th anniversary. Robert Thomson, CEO of parent company News Corp., says: "We're excited to celebrate this milestone anniversary and give thanks to the employees, authors, librarians, booksellers, and consumers who've been instrumental in helping HarperCollins become a part of the global literary culture over the last 200 years."
Mar 01 2016
Louise Rennison has died aged 63. She was the author of 10 young adult novels featuring Georgia Nicholson and a series of books about Georgia's younger cousin: The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.
In a statement, HarperCollins said: "Nobody wrote for teenagers like she did, she understood them, their lives and their extraordinary and powerful friendships. In life, as in her writing, she brought joy and laughter. Our thoughts are with her family, friends and the readers whose lives she has touched for almost 20 years."
Nov 19 2015
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2015 winners of the National Book Awards:
Fiction: Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles: Stories (Random House (USA))
Non-Fiction: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau / Penguin Random House)
Poetry: Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage Of the Sable Venus (Alfred A. Knopf)
Young People's Literature: Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep Dreaming (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Jul 21 2015
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman has sold 1.1 million digital and physical copies in North America in its first week. HarperCollins says that Watchman is now the fastest-selling book in its history and has already reprinted multiple times so there are now 3.3 million copies in print with print outselling electronic versions by 2-to-1 - the opposite sales pattern to most fiction works.
Jul 07 2015
Author Lawrence Hill has been appointed to the Order of Canada for his writing representing black history in Canada and for his charitable efforts to help girls and women in Africa through the Aminata Fund, named for The Book of Negroes (published in the USA as Someone Knows My Name) protagonist. Hill’s latest novel, The Illegal, is due from HarperCollins Canada in September.
May 01 2015
President Obama has announced two initiatives intended to "strengthen learning opportunities by improving access to digital content and to public libraries."
In the first initiative, major publishers including Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Candlewick and Bloomsbury will provide e-books valued at over $250m for use by low-income students.
In the second, the New York Public Library, with financial support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, is developing an e-reader app for low-income families that will provide age-appropriate book collections to low-income students aged 4-18; and various agencies including a network of librarians will volunteer to help get the books to the intended audience.
In addition, 30 communities have committed to the ConnectED Library Challenge which aims to ensure that every student has a library card.
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