June 8, 2019 at 1:45 am
In all of the current adulation for James Daunt, current chief executive of Waterstones and incoming chief executive of Barnes & Noble, it is worth recalling that it was not always so.
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June 8, 2019 at 1:45 am
Authors Lee Child and Joanna Trollope have been named in the Queen's Birthday Honours with former Hachette UK c.e.o. Tim Hely Hutchinson also recognised.
June 7, 2019 at 12:05 pm
Penguin Random House is acquiring the book publishing assets of F+W Media, which include the Writer's Digest catalog. Communities to be auctioned separately June 13. The post Penguin Random House Buys F+W Media’s Books at Auction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
June 7, 2019 at 10:11 am
James Daunt will be chief of both chains after deal hailed as boost for real-world bookshopsThe hedge fund owner of the UK’s largest book chain, Waterstones, has bought Barnes & Noble, the biggest chain in the US, in a $683m (£537m) deal heralded as a boost in their battle to preserve real-world bookshops.The UK arm…
June 7, 2019 at 8:22 am
A black character appears in one of four new stories designed to renew the appeal of Blyton’s boarding school for 21st-century readersThe girls of Malory Towers will be welcoming a new pupil later this month. Homesick, proud and lonely, Marietta is also the first black character to join Enid Blyton’s famous boarding school by the…
June 7, 2019 at 8:22 am
Elliott will pay some US$476 million for Barnes & Noble, having last year bought the UK's main chain Waterstones. James Daunt is to run both companies. The post Elliott Management Agrees to Buy Barnes & Noble, Daunt to Run Both B&N and UK’s Waterstones appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
June 7, 2019 at 1:56 am
On the first tour to Cannes of publishers and literary agents, Norway's Thomas Mala says the experience was worthwhile. He's ready to go again next year. The post Books to Film: Frankfurt’s Cannes Program Takes Publishers, Agents to France appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
June 7, 2019 at 1:45 am
Princeton University Press will publish The Obama Portraits, in association with the National Portrait Gallery, Washington.
June 7, 2019 at 1:45 am
Indie children’s publisher Everything With Words has landed its first adult book, a “brilliantly funny” guide to democracy by ex-MP Bob Marshall Andrews and illustrator Martin Rowson.
June 7, 2019 at 1:45 am
Can of Worms imprint Civic Books will publish the memoir of Holocaust survivor and peace worker Irene Butter in the UK in November.
