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Publisher sales fell 8.4% in March

May 19 2020: The decline in publishing sales due to the impact of Covid-19 began to appear in some, but not all, industry segments in March. The 1,361 publishers who report to the AAP's StatShot program saw a 8.4% decline in sales in March compared to a year ago. While the adult ...

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The story behind ‘The Great Realisation,’ a post-pandemic bedtime tale

May 15 2020: Before the pandemic, Tomos Roberts read his poems to crowds around London who, he confesses, were often more interested in what they were drinking than what he was saying. Now, hunkered down and out of work, he’s found a far more attentive audience that stretches around...

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An open letter to newspapers and other media outlets from the Authors Guild and the National Book Critics Circle

May 15 2020: From The Washington Post Book Club

You probably know that most news organizations have been walloped by the Great Cessation. Thousands of journalists have been laid off or furloughed, and many publications and web sites are expected to close — or already have. ...

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Bookstore sales plunged 33% in March

May 15 2020: Sales at bookstores tumbled 33.4% in March compared to March 2019, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales this March were $391 million, down from $587 million a year ago.

The entire retail segment, which rarely shows a monthly ...

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Print unit sales post another double digit gain

May 14 2020: Unit sales of print books continue to defy expectations that the coronavirus crisis will lead to a plunge in sales. In fact, just the opposite is occurring. Last week, unit sales of print books had their second consecutive week of double-digit growth over the previous ...

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Walker Books and Candlewick acquired by Trustbridge Global Media

May 13 2020: Walker Books and its global subsidiaries, which include Candlewick Press, have been acquired by Trustbridge Global Media, the global children's content company formed in 2016 by growth equity firm Trustbridge Partners. Prior to the sale, Walker was majority-owned by ...

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S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy dies of a heart attack

May 12 2020: Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster since 2008, died of a heart attack this morning. She was 71.

News of Reidy’s death was delivered to shocked S&S employees by Dennis Eulau, the company's executive v-p of operations and chief financial officer, who ...

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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

May 09 2020: When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965 for fifteen months, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman...

...No one noticed the small craft leaving the harbour that evening. Skies were fair; only a ...

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