Macmillan

Macmillan Parent Company Holtzbrinck Abandons DRM in Germany (The Digital Reader) Holtzbrinck is the parent company of Macmillan (which operates in the US, UK, and Australia), and in Germany it owns a number of publishers, including Droemer Knaur, Argon, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt and S. Fischer. According to my sources, all of Holtzbrinck’s German publishers […]

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Earlier year, Macmillan gave Scribd about a thousand titles as a trial run. Looks like they were happy with the results because now they’ve given them another thousand. In case you don’t keep tabs on such things, Tor is one of Macmillan’s imprints, so fantasy and science fiction readers can rejoice now. I checked with […]

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The eBook subscription website Oyster is announcing today that they are launching an eBook store. Significantly, they have the ‘big five’ publishers on board too: Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster, And also significantly, you don’t have to be an Oyster subscriber to purchase the books! I have to admit, this […]

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Tor.com, the Macmillan imprint enjoying almost unequaled status in science fiction circles, has just announced its Inaugural Novella List, dedicated to producing shorter long fiction, with the first titles due to appear in September 2015. Tor’s announcement reads:  Last summer Tor.com announced the formation of a new publishing program, dedicated to publishing the best novellas and […]

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Everyone has said that for subscription services to succeed, they have to have more books everyone has heard of. The subtext of that statement is that they need to have more books by traditional publishing. Scribd has done a pretty good job until now, signing deals with HarperCollins, Wiley, Kensington, Simon & Schuster, Open Road Media […]

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John Sargent is CEO of Macmillan, itself one of the Big Five publishers, although perhaps lower key and less controversial than the other four. And he penned an end-of-year message to the company’s “Authors, Illustrators, and Agents” which has appeared in full on the blog of Macmillan imprint Tor. It makes for some interesting reading. […]

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