The many judges of the BookLife Prize—bestselling authors, the editorial staff of Publishers Weekly and BookLife, and PW's crack team of reviewers—whittled down this year's 700-plus submissions to just seven titles: one from each of the contest's genres. The grand-prize winner will be announced on
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The publisher said the book was pitched as Sharp Objects meets Room; its narrator, a teenage girl, is “being held hostage in a remote cabin in New Zealand” by a captor who “claims he's protecting her from the tragic aftermath of her terrible role in a night back home in Melbourne she can't remember.
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From 2013 to 2015, they cowrote the monthly “Cut to the Core” column for Publishers Weekly, which focused on how the Common Core State Standards for education affected libraries and publishers. In addition, Library Journal has recognized the pair as “movers and shakers” for their advocacy efforts,
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Music Reports' rights database Songdex has hit a new milestone, helping music publishers claim more than 1 million songs since its claiming system was launched last year. The free Songdex Claiming System allows publishers to claim recordings that embody their songs, offering a valuable tool to
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In 2002, Raoul Goff decided to transform his book-packaging company into a full-service publishing house called Insight Editions. Fifteen years later, the publisher has two offices in San Rafael, Calif., another in Los Angeles, and one in Hong Kong to oversee manufacturing. It now counts around 70
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We asked Dias to reflect on her activism and publishing journey so far, and to share some of her future goals. What inspired you to create the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign? How did you put it together? Realizing that the access that I had to diversity was not a reality for most students was the biggest
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Seventy-one percent of that number find them to be effective, an increase from 51% in the spring survey. Among the top app publishers, 80% use a combination of video and display ads to monetize their apps, and ads account for 55% of total publisher revenue. They also ranked rewarded video as the
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As a trade publication covering the book business, we at Publishers Weekly are typically focused on reporting stories that show how the industry ticks—book deals, personnel moves, acquisitions, financial results, hot books, and new technology developments are all under our purview. But the past few
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A number of independent publishers were also involved in deals that added scale and, in some cases, diversified their businesses. Among the acquisitions that fell into this category was mind-body-spirit publisher Red Wheel/Weiser's purchase of Career Press, which added hundreds of business books
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