Industry Leadership

A consortium of independent publishers led by Seven Stories Press has launched Indie Playlist, a program that provides discounts and cash rewards for independent booksellers who order from a rotating list of titles.

Amid a series of promotions, Independent Publishers Group announced a strategic expansion of its marketing and publicity services, including its publisher development team.

Strong digital audio and backlist sales kept four of the big five publishers in the black in 2018.

Led by gains in its juvenile nonfiction imprints, Independent publisher Sourcebooks reports an overall increase in sales of 17% in 2018.

Independent book publisher Rowman & Littlefield has acquired the publishing imprints of Finney Company, a 73 year-old publishing house based just outside Minneapolis, Minn.

Prodded by one of its largest shareholders, IDW Media Holdings is reviewing opportunities to monetize its contents via films and TV and has hired J.P. Morgan to assist in the review process which could lead to the sale of the company.

The results of the special counsel's investigation is the hottest manuscript in political publishing today, and Melville House is the latest press to announce plans to release it—but will go the mass market route.

Vermont-based Chelsea Green Publishing is now fully employee-owned, marking the completion of an eight-year transition initiated by founders Margo and Ian Baldwin.

Regnery Publishing had a good 2018, which president and publisher Marji Ross considered "peculiar" for one reason: three of its top-selling titles were by well-known political figures who wrote nonpolitical books.

Among its defenses, the company says its use of the term "Choose Your Own Adventure" in connection with the film is a fair use.