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The London Book Fair's Seminar Program, held from March 12-14, will feature over 150 talks and panels on various topics impacting the global publishing industry. These include discussions on AI, digital audio, BookTok, social media, translation, copyright, threats to freedom of reading and publishing, and geopolitical forces. The program will feature industry leaders, experts, authors, and A-listers, offering diverse perspectives. Keynote panels will discuss women in publishing and Palestinian literary voices. The fair also includes an awards reception honoring YoungSuk "YS" Chi, chairman of Elsevier. [Extracted from the article]

This article discusses the challenges faced by independent publishers and provides advice for those hoping to break into the industry. The article features interviews with several independent publishers, including Clash Books, Clevo Books, Common Notions Press, LittlePuss Press, and Third State Books. Each publisher shares their mission or focus, major challenges they have faced, and their top piece of advice for indie publishers starting out. The challenges mentioned include securing distribution, rising production costs, getting noticed in a competitive marketplace, and finding funding. The advice given emphasizes the importance of perseverance, developing meaningful relationships, and providing valuable content. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents the discussion on Canada's independent presses requiring adaptations start at the staffing level showing flexibility within the publishing industry.

"The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany" is an exhilarating biography that highlights the work of foreign correspondent Sigrid Schultz, who reported from Berlin between 1919 and 1941. Schultz was one of the first journalists to document the growing threat of Nazism and systematically analyze how the Nazis manipulated the media. The book chronicles Schultz's investigative escapades and scoops, including her visit with Hitler's astrologers in 1939 that allowed her to break the news of Germany's nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union. The biography portrays Schultz as a small, blond, and formidable journalist who was considered Hitler's greatest enemy. [Extracted from the article]

Members of the Oxford University Press USA Guild went on strike outside the company's U.S. headquarters in Manhattan on June 18. The strike is a result of ongoing negotiations for a new contract and a complaint filed by the guild in March, alleging that OUP has been outsourcing union jobs and engaging in retaliatory actions. OUP representatives deny these claims and state that they are negotiating in good faith. In other news, Publishers Weekly has opened nominations for their Star Watch 2024 program, which recognizes young professionals in the publishing and bookselling industries. [Extracted from the article]

Washington Square Press, a publishing imprint under Simon & Schuster, has been relaunched as a frontlist hardcover imprint. Led by Atria editorial director Lindsay Sagnette, the press will focus on publishing four to six new books per season in the genres of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Washington Square Press, originally founded in 1959, has a rich history of publishing notable authors such as Pearl S. Buck, Toni Cade-Bambara, Carlos Castaneda, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Alice Walker. This relaunch marks a shift back to being a frontlist publisher and is part of Simon & Schuster's expansion efforts since its acquisition by private equity firm KKR in August 2023. [Extracted from the article]

NEWSOn February 26, Alessandra Bastagli will take over as v-p and publisher of One Signal Publishers, a nonfiction imprint of S&S's Atria Publishing Group. Bastagli, most recently editorial director at Astra House, succeeds Julia Cheiffetz, the founder and publisher of One Signal, who left the imprint last month. Over the course of more than two decades in book publishing, Bastagli has held roles at Dey Street, the Free Press, Nation Books (now Bold Type), and Norton.PHOTO (COLOR): Bastagli [Extracted from the article]

The article presents an interview with Kate Edwards, executive director of the ACP at Canada's organization for domestic presses. Topics include paper shortages and rising production costs, competition for press time, and ongoing supply chain disruptions; and focusing on other areas of the business or association priorities like advocacy.

The article discusses the successful launch of the Rare Machines imprint by Dundurn Press, despite the financial challenges faced by publishers.It mentions that this new imprint focuses on literary fiction and seeks to represent diverse voices, blending genres and embracing an outward-looking, cosmopolitan approach. It discusses successes and projects, including an erotic writing anthology, demonstrate the advantages of being an independent press that can take risks in the publishing world.

The article focuses on Michelle Tea's fulfillment of her longtime dream of becoming a publisher with the launch of Dopamine Books, a nonprofit press in collaboration with Semiotext(e). Dopamine aims to publish and support emerging queer writers, offering a platform for those intimidated by traditional publishing while fostering a diverse range of voices in the literary world.

The article focuses on the works of author Chelsea Hodson along with the release of independent press, Rose Books. It mentions that musician Geoff Rickly's "Someone Who Isn't Me", slated for July, 2023 will be the inaugural title published by Rose Books. It also mentions that Rose Books is planning to release hardcover and a paperback edition of each titles.

An interview with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang and writer Stephen Marche is presented. They explain how their book "The Last Election" promote the political agenda of Yang. Yang describes the significant role of the press in finding truth explored in the book. Marche tells about writing the military intervention in the U.S. presidential election.

The article focuses on the 50th anniversary of both Verso and the Feminist Press, radical English-language publishers. Topics include view of Jisu Kim, Feminist's Press's marketing and publicity manager on it, and both presses' celebrated backlists are full of theory, social criticism, and fiction by storied authors like Theodore Adorno and Judith Butler, and increase in online sales of books including "The End of Policing" by Alex S. Vitale.

The article reports that Spain's turn as guest of honor at the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair has meant increased funding for translation with additional funding from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), whose mission is to promote Spanish culture in Spain and abroad. It mentions that some titles published by U.S.-based presses received translation funding from AC/E, and the majority of those were published by independent presses, including Archipelago.

A panel discussion among representatives of university presses about the marketing strategies used by academic presses in the U.S. specializing in African-American nonfiction titles about getting their products into the trade market amidst the continuing race issue in the country is presented. Topics covered include the focus of Black Classic Press on resources for Black studies and teaching, and the revival of African-American research for Duke University Press.

The article looks at the future of multimedia publisher Regan Arts amid a number of canceled deals and decreasing print sales. Topics discussed include the company's creation in 2013 as a division of art book publisher Phaidon, the departure of editors at Regan Arts including Stacy Creamer, Alexis Gargagliano, and Ron Hogan, and the various book titles acquired and canceled such as "A Bigger Field Awaits Us" by Andrew Beaujon, "Silicon States" by Whitney Hsu, and "Clean Meat" by Paul Shapiro.

The article covers the rebranding of the PEN American Center, a writers association, to PEN America and the organization's strategy under Executive Director Suzanne Nossel. It discusses PEN's efforts to increase awareness of free-expression issues, freedom of press, and free speech at college campuses. Initiatives to increase membership are also covered.

The article offers publishing news briefs as of November 5, 2012. Sales profits dropped in the third quarter at education company McGraw Hill Education. The University of North Carolina (UNC) Press editor-in-chief David Perry is retiring. U.S. book retailer Barnes & Noble has begun selling their e-reader Nook in Great Britain.

This section offers news briefs on the book industry. An English volume of work by Chinese writer and Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo will be published by Harvard University Press. A line of Penguin Classics was launched by Penguin Group in partnership with the charitable brand "(Product) Red." Books for Business in Toronto, Ontario was acquired by Sean Neville, former owner of Simply Audiobooks.

This section offers news briefs related to the publishing industry as of July 6, 2009. Hachette Book Group announced that it can use devices with text-to-speech functionality as long as its authors do not object. Harvard University Press removed six positions in response to the economic downturn. Barnes & Noble.com has introduced an iPhone app which will make users access content from the BN.com site and purchase books and other items from the site.

This section offers news briefs related to the U.S. publishing industry. Wholesaler BookStream closed its operations in relation to its inability to get either adequate credit from publishers or sufficient capitalization from investors. Oxford University Press laid off 60 people at offices in New York City and Cary, North Carolina. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops plans to close by March 31, 2009.

The article present news briefs related to book industry rights. It further discusses that Scout Press's Alison Callahan preempted North American rights to Swedish journalist Jens Liljestrand's "Even If Everything Ends"; Clio Setraphim at Random House bought U.S. rights to "Chrysalis" by Anna Metcalfe; and also mentions that Elizabeth Ault at Duke University Press bought U.S. rights to Shola von Reinhold's "Lote".

The author reflects on being a disabled journalist. He talks about the revision and expansion announced by Associated Press of its guidelines for writing about disabled people, the criticism against AP for its advice surrounding person-first versus identify-first language, and his advice for writers and style guided editors.

This article deals with the growing market for contemporary art in the book publishing industry. The contemporary art world is still finite, says Charles Miers, publisher of Rizzoli USA. Since its inception, Taschen Books has been known for its Basic Art series, an affordable list of paperback titles designed to introduce students and the interested public to major figures in art history. The Contemporary Artists series from Phaidon Press takes by far the most in-depth approach to a wide range of artists working today.

An interview is presented with Brian Birnbaum, co-founder and executive editor of Dead Rabbits Books. Topics include reading series and launch of the press; intersection of reading, writing, and community, and how Birnbaum help bring writers out of isolation; and authors who feel discouraged about getting their work published to know about Dead Rabbits.

The article presents news briefs on the book industry. Six-month sales at publisher and packager Quarto Group rose in 2005. Rusty Drugan has resigned as executive director of the New England Booksellers Association. Penguin's Perigre imprint has signed a deal with a British publisher to bring a line of best-selling British self-help titles to American readers. The independent nonprofit press Dalkey Archive is relocating from Normal, Illinois to Rochester, New York.

Describes the factors that have brought University presses increased growth in sales despite the decline in sales to libraries, their traditional market. Over the past 20 years they have become more astute publishers. Market for midlist books; Declining market for scholarly monographs; Classroom sales; Sales representatives; Subsidy money for low market books difficult to find; Regional lists.

Discusses the trend in the mid 1990s among religion publishers towards producing electronic reference works. The increase in expectations from the customers; The percentage of electronic reference sales being religion; The two competing standard formats in religion publishing; How publishers develop strategies; The risks and rewards of electronic religion publishing. INSET: Working with booksellers.

The article presents publishing industry news briefs as of March 2014. Green Apple Books bookstore in San Francisco, California was awarded the "Publishers Weekly" Bookstore of the Year. Keith Fox was named as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Phaidon Press publishing house. Independent electronic book (e-book) retailer Diesel eBooks will close in March 2014.

The article presents publishing industry-related news as of October 15, 2012, including the ruling in the case HathiTrust v. Authors Guild, the acquisition of the publishing company Phaidon Press by Leon Black, chief executive officer of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC, and writer Mo Yan's receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature award.

The article presents publishing news briefs as of March 2012, including retailer Hastings Entertainment's 2011 drop in sales, publisher Hachette Book Group's appointment of Evan Schnittman as vice president, and a deal between book services firm Ingram Content Group and Cambridge University Press.

The article reports on an increase in the sales of foreign language reference titles in the U.S. It states that at least some of the growth in the category is due to expansion of the pool of languages attracting interest. Nancy Grant, vice-president of marketing at Houghton Mifflin, cites burgeoning interest in Korean and Tagalog, as well as Chinese, Russian and Thai. The University of New Mexico Press is even adding dictionaries for indigenous languages such as Jicarilla Apache and Navajo.

The article discusses how Oxford University Press has responded rapidly to the changing market conditions and customer needs resulting from the Covid-19 crisis. It reports that book publishing industry must initial rush to enable remote working, extensive financial scenario modeling, and then accelerating digital programs and sales in anticipation of a very different-looking post-pandemic world.

The article talks about accusations of racism in the publishing industry by mentioning about criticism faced by the book American Dirt author Jeanine Cummins. Topics discussed include author J. K. Rowling's rendering of the native wizards in her Fantastic Beasts series, issues of author Amélie Wen Zhao with her publisher and under-represents writers of color.

In The Country Under My Skin, Gioconda Belli describes her involvement with the Nicaraguan socialist rebels known as the Sandinistas, who ended a dictatorship and took over the country in 1979. When the third Somoza came to power in 1967, civic alternatives for political change in Nicaragua were no longer viable. [Extracted from the article]

This is a huge and lucrative market that no university press can afford to ignore: there are roughly 27 million college students, more than seven million graduate students, and close to two million postgraduate students in about 2,915 higher learning institutions in China. But after the 2010 nationwide restructuring campaign that brought about the "emancipation" of university presses from their parent institutions, there has been a big push for them to enter the trade market, widen their readerships, and seek their own fortunes. Such books don't always have mainstream appeal, but Guangxi Normal University Press Group, for instance, managed to combine academic rigor and market-friendliness with Pivots: 3,000 Years of China, which hit the bestseller jackpot with nearly 280,000 copies sold to date. [Extracted from the article]

The article relates that books by authors who are psychics have landed in the best seller chart of "Publishers Weekly," including "The Light Between Us," by Laura Lynne Jackson and her follow-up "Signs," along with "Medical Medium Celery Juice," by Anthony William.

The article reports that the book "Three Women" by Lisa Taddeo, published on July 9, 2019 landed at number four on "Publishers Weekly's" Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction list. Topics discussed include number of copies of the book in print according to Jofie Ferrari-Adler, Avid Reader vice president and publisher; views of Ferrari-Adler on the book; and other titles that are planned to be released in 2019.

Reports on several appointments and promotions in the publishing industry in the U.S. as of October 10, 2005. Ileene Smith at Yale University Press; David Wilk at Resolution Inc.; Verney J. Kenney at Zondervan.

The article offers information on feminist presses in the U.S., as of March 2018. Topics discussed include the increase in sales at Feminist Press in 2017 according to Jisu Kim, who handles marketing, sales, and publicity for the Feminist Press, top-selling titles at Aunt Lute, a press which has published multicultural feminist books since 1982, and feminist origins of Seal Press, which was founded as an indie press in 1976.