PEOPLE At WaterBrook & Multnomah, Sarah Rubio joins as Executive Editor and Bunmi Ishola joins as Editor. Rubio was previously Senior Editor at Tyndale House and Ishola was previously Editorial Project Coordinator at Kidsbooks. At Scholastic, Alex Kelleher-Nagorski joins as Associate Director of Publicity. He was previously Publicity Manager at Little, Brown Children’s. Ingram Spark…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Macmillan, Sarah Crichton will return as Editor-in-Chief for Holt on April 6. She previously ran the Sarah Crichton Books imprint until the line was eliminated. Retha Powers joins the imprint as Editor at Large on May 1; she has been working as Assistant Director at the CCNY Publishing Certificate Program at City College….Continue Reading
Superhero movies – and to an extent TV shows – are one of the biggest trends in entertainment of recent years. But success on the screen doesn’t guarantee comic book sales. To better analyze the correlation, I took a look at the trade paperback sales of two comic books for two of the most popular…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Why shouldn’t we worry about teenagers’ reading habits? How are the “girl” titles more than just a marketing trend? Why…Continue Reading
PT thanks The Licensing Letter’s Ira Mayer for his reporting. Visiting the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in March after an absence of a dozen or so years was a wonderful reminder of how vibrant an art form children’s books are. While the children’s book market is dominated by name brands (Disney, Marvel, Nickelodeon, etc., as…Continue Reading
