650+ authors and literary agents will not submit new books to HarperCollins...
About 250 HarperCollins employees have been on strike for more than a month, fighting for better pay, union protections, and diversity initiatives. An open letter of support for the employees striking...
View ArticleAuthors co-host rally at Harper headquarters; agents 'overwhelmingly'...
Unionized HarperCollins employees are planning to rally outside the company's headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District at 12:30 p.m. on December 16, according to the union....
View ArticleHarperCollins strike dispatch
From an article by Rye White in n + 1 magazine: An observer can catch HarperCollins president and CEO, Brian Murray, crossing the picket line most mornings, evenings, and lunchtimes, although...
View ArticleUkrainian publishers fight on
Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to disrupt Ukraine's publishing industry, as warehouses are destroyed, logistics break down, and employees are displaced. Moreover, Russia continues to try to...
View ArticleNYC public libraries say proposed budget cuts may 'push us over the edge'
New York City's public libraries may have to cut staff, hours, branches and programming as they face potential multi-million-dollar budget cuts in Mayor Eric Adams' plan to curtail city spending....
View ArticleBarnes & Noble to Open 30 Stores in 2023
Barnes & Noble plans to open 30 stores in 2023 and over the past year opened more stores than it closed, according to the Wall Street Journal, which said the company has "experienced robust...
View ArticleHenrietta Lacks statue to replace Robert E Lee monument in Virginia
A bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks – whose cells were taken from her body without her permission before they facilitated numerous medical advances – is taking the place of a monument to the...
View ArticleHelping Ukrainian books and booksellers
According to Oleksandr Afonin, president of the Ukrainian Association of Booksellers and Publishers, since February over 3000 publishing professionals have lost their livelihoods. A number have lost...
View ArticleUS book bans may increase in 2023
Book bans have plagued many US schools throughout 2022, with stories focusing on LGBTQ+ and race issues being targeted by conservatives across the country, and the right aims only to step up its...
View ArticleInside the library where you can read in two countries at once
Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont – From the outside, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House looks like any other Victorian-style building from the early 20th century, complete with...
View ArticleSomething is afoot with copyright this Public Domain Day
Among the works liberated for the delight of American citizens this morning are: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse; the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; Fritz Lang's seminal...
View ArticleApple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks
Audiobooks narrated by a text-to-speech AI are now available via Apple's Books service, in a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry. Apple describes...
View ArticleFay Weldon obituary
The novelist Fay Weldon, who has died aged 91, was to an unusual extent the creation of her own extravagant imagination. A polemicist whose opinions shaped themselves around the plot of her latest...
View ArticleFilippo Bernardini: Italian admits stealing unpublished books
An Italian man has admitted stealing more than 1,000 unpublished manuscripts, many written by high-profile authors. Filippo Bernardini impersonated figures from the publishing industry to trick people...
View ArticleFan outrage at Susan Meachen, the romance novelist accused of faking her death
In September 2020, a Facebook post from someone claiming to be the daughter of indie romance author Susan Meachen announced the writer had died by suicide. Ms Meachen wrote what she described as...
View ArticleObituary: Russell Banks
Russell Banks, "whose vivid portrayals of working-class Americans grappling with issues of poverty, race and class placed him among the first ranks of contemporary novelists," died January 7, the New...
View Article"Spare" breaks sets new first day sales record for Penguin Random House
The English-language edition of Spare, the memoir by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, sold more than 1,430,000 million units in all formats and editions in the United States, Canada, and the U.K. on...
View ArticleThe HarperCollins Strike Approaches 50 Days: '$45K Is Just Not Enough to...
When Wednesday arrives, 200-odd members of the HarperCollins union will have been on strike for 50 days, the latest action in an industry that has in recent years seen workers call for (and sometimes...
View ArticleDebut author talks about conflicted feelings being published by...
Today, my first novel is being published. It's the culmination of seven years of work and, uh, a large number of years of dreaming of writing a novel. Publication day for a debut novel can be a little...
View ArticleWho wins in the HarperCollins Union labor dispute?
As the HarperCollins labor dispute rolls into a new year, the company's unionized employee strike is now the longest in the union's more than 80-year history at the top publisher. Since the initial...
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