Title Acquisitions
Ubisoft has partnered before with various publishers to create both books and comics surrounding the universes of its biggest franchises, but now they will be doing some book publishing of their own. The company has created Ubisoft Publishing to create new extended lore books for its series, and the first one will be Assassin’s Creed Heresy. Heresy…
NEW YORK, N.Y. — September 8, 2016 — Rodale Inc., the world’s leading healthy, happy living company, has announced the launch of the new imprint Rodale Kids. The first list will be introduced in Fall 2017 and will feature fun and entertaining, educational, and empowering fiction and nonfiction titles aimed at infants through teens. Said…
NEW YORK — August 8, 2016 — Bonnier Publishing, the English-language book-publishing arm of Bonnier AB, today announces the formation of Bonnier Publishing USA as part of an ambitious program for growth led by Group CEO, Richard Johnson. The new division will bring together Bonnier Publishing’s imprints in the USA: start-up publisher Little Bee Books…
New York, NY (August 3, 2016) -- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two script book, the eighth Harry Potter story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, published in the U.S. and Canada by Scholastic, hit bookstores nationwide at 12:01 a.m. on July 31, 2016. Retailer reports estimate that Scholastic…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — July 26, 2016 — Ingram Content Group through Ingram Publisher Services announces the launch of Ingram Academic Services, a service customized for university presses and academic publishers. The first joint initiative following Ingram’s acquisition of Perseus’ distribution businesses, Ingram Academic Services offers distinguished resources, tools and services to help university presses and…
In their 2011 book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, Dan Senor and Saul Singer explored how Israel, at the start of 2009, had more companies than any other country listed on the NASDAQ. Seven years later, the start-up scene there reportedly still is going strong. In February, Oxford University Press (OUP) teamed up with…
Amazon this morning is introducing a new way to read short-form content on Kindle devices and in the Kindle app with the launch of “Singles Classics.” The service will bring articles, stories and essays from well-known authors and top periodicals – many available in digital format for the first time. The articles will be priced at 99…
Scroll through the Emily Books website and—framed in hot pink—you’ll see a collection of titles by women that feels more like a secret handshake than a business plan. There are books about witches and sex work, pregnancy and abortion, best friends and substance abuse. There’s a small homage to #FerranteFever; Elena Ferrante, the pseudonymous author…
Penguin’s iconic Modern Poets series, which was first launched in the early 1960s with the writings of authors from Lawrence Durrell to Stevie Smith, is being revived this summer to introduce a new generation of poets. . . Penguin poetry editor Donald Futers, who is relaunching the series in July with If I’m Scared We…
My first career job out of college was working for a husband- and wife-owned press in Berkeley, California. Though both Berkeley and that press had a bit of a radical past, I wouldn’t realize until years later that the business dealings I was exposed to at that press would end up challenging people’s notions of…