Doris

Doris

August 16, 2017

Debuts for the week August 16, 2017: Hardcover Fiction #12-Girl in Snow, by Danya Kukafka (9781501144370) #15-The Address, by Fiona Davis (9781524741990) Hardcover Nonfiction #6-Why Buddhism Is True, by Robert Wright (9781439195451) Paperback Fiction #9-The...

Palm Beach Poetry Festival Returns To Delray Beach In January

Palm Beach Poetry Festival Returns To Delray Beach In January

Susan R. Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival (PBPF), today announced that the 14th annual festival is returning to Old School Square for six days, January 15-20, 2018. Special Guest Poet will be Coleman Barks, a major poet and the world's leading...

Jennifer Bergstrom Named Senior VP of Gallery Books

Jennifer Bergstrom Named Senior VP of Gallery Books

Jennifer Bergstrom has been named Senior Vice President and Publisher of the Gallery Books Group, as announced today by Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, to whom Ms. Bergstrom will report.             Ms. Bergstrom was previously Vice President...

Barnes & Noble Acquires Student Brands for $58.5 Million

Barnes & Noble Acquires Student Brands for $58.5 Million

Barnes & Noble Education Inc. announced on Friday August 4, 2017 that it acquired Hollywood’s Student Brands, a developer of online writing and study tools, for $58.5 million in cash. Student Brands is an education technology company that operates websites focused...

Jason Reynolds Named 2017 Indies First Spokesperson

Jason Reynolds Named 2017 Indies First Spokesperson

The American Booksellers Association has named Jason Reynolds as the 2017 official spokesperson for Indies First, a national campaign of activities and events in support of independent bookstores that takes place on Small Business Saturday, the weekend after...

U.S. District Judge Upholds Copyright for Penguin Random House

U.S. District Judge Upholds Copyright for Penguin Random House

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has found that the unauthorized children’s editions of Truman Capote’sBreakfast at Tiffany’s, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001, A Space Odyssey and Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea published by Moppet Books...

VitalSource® and Macmillan Team Up on Enhanced Digital Solutions

VitalSource® and Macmillan Team Up on Enhanced Digital Solutions

New collaboration provides enhanced digital solutions for a broader population of students  Today Macmillan Learning, a premier educational content and digital solutions company, and VitalSource Technologies LLC, the world leader in building, enhancing and delivering...

Guardian Media Group cuts losses by more than a third

Guardian Media Group cuts losses by more than a third

Publisher of the Guardian and Observer says paid membership numbers more than quadrupled in the last financial year The parent company of the Guardian and Observer cut its losses by more than a third to £45m in the last financial year and more than quadrupled its...