Friday, August 14, 2015

The Roundup with PW

Harlequin Makes HC's Year
Eleven months of sales and earnings from Harlequin helped offset declines at parent company, HarperCollins. HC, stung by a slowdown in sales of the Divergent trilogy—which was a significant boon to the house's revenues in 2014—saw a 16% increase in revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015, over fiscal 2014. more »


Educational Publishers Sue Textbook Reseller
Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson Education this week filed a copyright and trademark infringement suit against a U.S.-based textbook reseller for allegedly importing and selling pirated foreign editions of popular textbooks. more »


A Decade of 'Silver Spoon'
To mark the tenth anniversary of the landmark Italian cookbook, Phaidon is releasing 'The Silver Spoon: Quick and Easy Italian Recipes' in September, and debuting three single-subject cookbooks as part of its new Italian Cooking School line in October. more »



'Curious' Banned : Author Mark Haddon is "puzzled" as a high school in Tallahassee, Fla., withdraws 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ' from the school’s reading program amid concerns over swearing.

Oldest Multicolored Print Book: Cambridge University Library recently digitized the first multicolor printed book, a 17th-century artist manual that was so fragile in physical form that it had previously never even been opened.

FT & McKinsey 2015 Longlist: The promise and perils of technology dominate the longlist for this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

Garcia Marquez's Return Home: The ashes of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez are heading to the country of his birth, Colombia.

Textbooks Are Going Digital: But, 'Forbes' asks,' will that put college bookstores out of business?

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