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Venerable
On one of American literature’s biggest nights of the year, Percival Everett and more took home this year’s National Book Awards at a 75th-anniversary ceremony filled with music and moving moments. Montreal-based software company Valsoft is continuing its foray into the publishing world, acquiring the developer of Edelweiss. For this week’s magazine, we spoke with book workers of color from across the industry about the importance of diversity in book publishing and checked in with We Need Diverse Books about its first 10 years. Anne Hathaway will star in an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Verity, per Deadline. The Atlantic examines the prevalence of the Publishers Marketplace deal screenshot. For the Boston Globe, Alexander Chee encourages readers to write to their favorite authors. A series of Black Mirror comic books is heading to the U.K. next year, adapting episodes of the hit TV show, reports Radio Times. Asymptote considers the challenges of transcultural translation. And for his Substack the Chatner, writer Daniel Lavery pens an ode to World War II–era book marketing.
The 75th National Book Awards, once again dominated by outspoken writers passionate about their politics, saw a much-predicted win in the fiction category and unsparing criticism of the war in Gaza from the podium. more »
Editors and agents of color discuss how they advocate for their authors, themselves, and one another. more »
Montreal-based software company Valsoft Corporation has acquired Above the Treeline, Inc., developer of Edelweiss, the digital workflow platform for booksellers and publishers which serves 1,200 companies and 250,000 users. The move follows Valsoft's majority stake purchase in publishing software Klopotek in August 2023. more »
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The nonprofit celebrates a decade of expanding representation and discusses its next challenges. more »
The senior publicist at Beacon Press finds working for an indie press with a social justice focus particularly rewarding professionally, politically, and personally. more »
Lil’ Libros, Bitty Bao, and Gloo Books publish board books and picture books that celebrate global identities. more »
Ukrainian historian and author Olena Stiazhkina, whose two recently translated works from Harvard University Press examine the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, hopes her writing will serve as both testament and warning. more »
Taylor, SVP of international content acquisition for the Ingram Content Group, will retire in June 2025 after a career which started as a bookseller at Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford, England in 1983. more »
Russell Evans (l.) has been named director of business development for Hachette Book Group US Distribution and Hachette UK Distribution, and James Linney will take on the new role of CFO of distribution for HBG and Hachette UK. more »
Despite recent challenges and shifts, the Chinese children’s book market, which is comprised of 370 million children and young adults, remains a big draw for publishers, making the Shanghai Children's Book Fair, which ran November 15-17 this year, an important stop for companies that are looking to increase their sales in the country. more »
For many, CCBF is fast becoming a venue not just to meet Chinese publishers and distributors on their own turf but also to connect with those from the Asia Pacific region and beyond, including Latin America, Russia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. 'PW' spoke with several publishers to share their insight on the fair and the market. more »
Job Moves
- Wendy Queen has been promoted to inaugural chief transformation officer at Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Niamh Hoban has joined Simon & Schuster as videographer and video editor.
- Imani Seymour has been promoted to senior manager of multicultural marketing and social media at Simon & Schuster.
- Michael Andersen, formerly director of cultural intelligence at Simon Element, has joined Simon & Schuster's corporate marketing team as senior director of audience insights.
'Hexed' by Emily McIntire is the #1 title on PW's trade paperback bestseller list. See the full list »
'The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790–1958' by David Levering Lewis"In this intricate, sumptuously written account, Pulitzer winner Lewis offers a unique version of the American rags-to-riches story that shows how Black strivers had to navigate the nearly insurmountable obstacles and moral quandaries of slavery and Jim Crow in order to prosper." more »
Picture of the Day
Latinx in Publishing celebrated its 10th anniversary at the Penguin Random House offices in Manhattan on November 14. Pictured (from l. to r.) are Latinx in Publishing work-in-progress fellows Sarah Marie Jette and Ananda Lima and editorial fellow Rose Heredia.
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