Carmen Callil – publisher, author, and feminist firebrand – dies at age 84
"All of us in publishing, and all of us who love books, owe a debt to her publishing genius," says Bea Hemming of Jonathan Cape.
Return of Globe’s Arts & Books section features one book review – of a book by a Globe columnist
The single book review was of a book by technology columnist Josh O'Kane.
Is publishing in Canada broken? No, but dismissing an entire segment of the ecosystem certainly doesn’t help
Rather than farm teams, it's preferable to think of smaller publishers as craft breweries or artisinal vineyards.
“No special treatment”: Madeline McIntosh, PRH U.S. CEO, claims in court that books are treated equally in-house, notwithstanding the stature of the author or the amount paid for them
"Once a book with a big advance is in-house ... it gets no special treatment," McIntosh said on the stand.
Casey Plett will be everywhere in fall 2022 and spring 2023
Plett's own debut collection of short fiction, A Safe Girl to Love, is being reissued by her current publisher, Vancouver's Arsenal Pulp Press.
Publishers as “angels” and other weird assertions from Markus Dohle cap a busy week at DoJ v. PRH antitrust trial
Dohle suggested on the stand that publishers resembled the "Silicon Valley of media" and compared their work to that of angel investors in business.
Stephen King and Jonathan Karp square off in the early days of the DoJ/PRH/S&S antitrust suit
"When I started in this business, there were literally hundreds of imprints, and some of them were run by people with extremely idiosyncratic tastes, one might say."
Final briefs filed in PRH/S&S merger fight with U.S. Department of Justice
The suit to block the proposed merger is set to begin in a Washington, D.C., court on Monday, August 1.
Stephanie Sinclair to take over as publisher of McClelland & Stewart, Jared Bland moves to communications role in major shake-up at PRHC
Former publisher Jared Bland will take the role of vice president, communications and community, while Beth Lockley becomes VP marketing.
Marvel extends its publishing multiverse by partnering with Penguin Modern Classics for a line of vintage comics reprints
"They’re sort of fairy tales of modernity," says series editor Ben Saunders.