Disney inches toward world dominance with Fox acquisition
All around the world / we’ll go marching / who’s the leader of the club / that’s made for you and me / M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Yes, capitalism’s favorite anthropomorphic mouse continues… Read more »
Amid sexual harassment allegations, Sherman Alexie declines an award and delays his paperback
One of the latest shocks in the #MeToo movement has been the sexual harassment allegations against Sherman Alexie, the National Book Award–winning author of beloved classics The Absolutely True Diary… Read more »
Hachette CEO Arnaud Nourry thinks e-books are “a stupid product”
It’s been ten years since Amazon’s Kindle introduced e-books as a major component of the publishing market, and four-ish years since Hachette and Simon & Schuster successfully negotiated with Amazon… Read more »
What’s in a name? If the name is “Weinstein,” a whole lot of fleeing revenue
In a development surprising literally none people, Weinstein Books is officially shitcanned. Hachette Book Group announced in a statement last week that Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s eponymous imprint was terminated… Read more »
Publishers are banding together to take on a logging company over free speech
While writers and agents and publishers and scouts and readers and booksellers flocked to the Javits Center for BookExpo earlier this month, a petition signed by more than 100 authors… Read more »
Hachette sues the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for breach of contract
The publisher Hachette is suing Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for breach of contract. According to Ashley Cullins at the Hollywood Reporter, the lawsuit “can… Read more »
From James Patterson, a new line of books that are “like reading movies”
James Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for the most New York Times bestsellers (he’s sold about 325 million books worldwide), has a dedicated 16-person staff at Hachette’s Little, Brown imprint,… Read more »
Hachette acquires Perseus Books
In 2014, two years after the death of Perseus Books’s founder Frank Pearl, Hachette Book Group got most of the way through a deal to purchase Perseus in its entirety. Now, some eighteen months after… Read more »
Ex-Sony music mogul pockets $150,000 from book deal with Hachette, doesn’t write book
According to reports in the New York Daily News and the New York Post, former Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola is being sued by Hachette Book Group for failing to deliver… Read more »
Leading authors take Google Books copyright appeal to Supreme Court
Last week, we wrote about ‘Books at Play’, Google’s new project with experimental publisher Visual Editions to create digital reading experiences in the form of “books that cannot be printed.”… Read more »