A partnership with PRH lets Kinokuniya consumers compare English and Japanese editions. And a building in which Hemingway once was printed has been bought.
‘Cyberwar’ Wins AAP’s Hawkins Award: Jamieson Sounds Alarm for Publishers
At the Annenberg, Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s ‘Library of Alexandria moment’ is a warning to publishers that their essential content could go up in cyber-flames.
AAP’s 2019 Professional and Scholarly Conference: ‘Mission Critical’
At the Association of American Publishers’ PSP conference on scholarly and professional publishing, speakers will address data security, licensing, AI, and leadership.
AAP Announces 2019 PROSE Award Category Winners, Board Officers
The 48 subject category winners of the 2019 PROSE Award cycle from the Association of American Publishers will yield four top category titles and an overall winner.
‘Giving Tuesday’: Penguin Random House Supports Worldreader, Ingram Supports Binc
Two corporate leaders in international publishing, Penguin Random House and Ingram, are kicking off the ‘season of giving’ with support for book related charities.
‘Trainspotting’ at 25: Cape’s Robin Robertson on Acquiring the Book
The winner of the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize for ‘The Long Take,’ Robin Robertson talks about acquiring world rights to ‘Trainspotting’ for Secker in 1992.
Maya Jasanoff Wins the $75,000 Cundill History Prize 2018
‘A lot harder than it sounds’ to get right, Cundill History Prize jurors hail Maya Jasanoff’s ‘first-class historical writing’ on Joseph Conrad.
Frank Sambeth Out at Verlagsgruppe Random House, Thomas Rathnow In
Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle names Thomas Rathnow as Verlagsgruppe Random House’s new chief, replacing Frank Sambeth.
Inception Announces Bookful, an AR Platform Licensing Penguin Random House Brands
Inception’s Bookful app has the advantage of the beloved Beatrix Potter content and other Penguin Random House brands on which to base its first six digital books.
PRH Takes Majority Stake in Brazil’s Grupo Companhia das Letras
In a memo from CEO Markus Dohle, Penguin Random House announces majority ownership in Brazil’s largest trade publisher, Companhia das Letras.