Macmillan Publishing Solutions

NEW YORK — December 13, 2016 — The New York Public Library and Macmillan Publishers have announced a new agreement to create and publish a wide variety of print and ebooks for adults and for children drawing from and inspired by the Library’s world-renowned collections of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, artifacts, and more. The bulk…

Volumes of printed pages will decrease significantly over the next four years, according to an IT Strategies study. VP of IT Strategies Marco Boer told attendees at yesterday’s Digital Book Printing Conference that the volume of printed pages will decline 7.4% from 2007 to 2020, totaling over 5 billion pages lost. As demand for print…

In its early stages, this column devolved into all the reasons I wanted to befriend U.K. vlogger and publishing machine, Leena Norms. She’s passionate, unabashedly herself, the co-founder of the Banging Bookclub, a Harry Potter apologist, unafraid to speak her mind, and Instagrams as many book pictures as I do cat pictures. I rarely see myself,…

This post examines the latest quarterly financial reports from the big 5 book publishers and tries to draw some conclusions from the data. The big 5 are, of course, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. These companies are often seen as emblematic of the state of traditional trade book publishing in the…

The digital revolution is “absolutely” not over, Sara Lloyd, digital and communications director at Pan Macmillan has said, while arguing that there is “no room for complacency in our industry”. Speaking at The Bookseller’s Marketing and Publicity Conference today (28th June), Lloyd argued that the publishing industry needs to expand its horizons and keep pushing…

Scribd, which recently changed its business model, is adding more than 6,000 titles from Macmillan to its subscription ebook service. The addition of the Macmillan titles come on the heels of Scribd's move to a hybrid subscription model. Among the titles being added are Matthew Quick’s Silver Linings Playbook and Richard Price’s Lush Life. Nonfiction…

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Apple Inc's $450 million settlement of claims that it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise ebook prices. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected a challenge by ebooks purchaser John Bradley to the fairness, reasonableness and adequacy of Apple's class-action antitrust settlement…

The biggest deals in the publishing industry in 2015 occurred outside of the trade sector. Unlike 2013, when the Random House–Penguin merger was completed, or 2014, when HarperCollins acquired Harlequin, the major trade houses did not make any major acquisitions last year. The biggest acquisitions in 2015 were in professional and educational publishing, led by…

The Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to refuse to hear Apple's appeal of a ruling that it conspired with publishers to raise the price of ebooks. The antitrust ruling against Apple—issued in 2013 by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote and affirmed this year by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals—was "supported…

Springer has become the latest publisher to offer ebook bundles to readers through Vancouver's BitLit. In an announcement made today (December 7), BitLit personnel tell The Bookseller that the new arrangement will add more than 100,000 titles to BitLit's "Shelfie" app. Some 1,200 publishers now offer some degree of bundling through BitLit, according to the…