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Top Brass
Andrew Rein has been promoted to president of Zando after five years at the fast-growing indie publisher. We checked in with the new executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, Allison Belan, about the biggest issues facing the business and her vision for the trade organization as it celebrates 50 years. Comics publishers and retailers of all stripes are embracing digital formats and finding creative solutions since the demise of Amazon’s Comixology platform. And we talked with Abrams ComicsArts editorial director Charles Kochman about his plans for the art book publisher’s burgeoning graphic division. In other news, Deadline lays out the spate of Carley Fortune adaptations heading to screens. David Corn at Mother Jones evaluates the ability of Claude, Anthropic’s large language model, to generate a novel. Meanwhile, Anthropic is rolling out an invisible watermark on text copied from Claude, Business Insider reports. For Wired, Jill Lepore opines on how Big Tech appropriates classic works of science fiction. And fantasy author John Crowley and biographer Richard Lingeman have died at 83 and 95, respectively.
Rein, who previously served as head of sales and publishing, has been appointed president of the independent publisher, overseeing “every aspect of Zando’s operations and growth,” founder and CEO Molly Stern said. He was one of Zando’s first employees, joining the company in 2021 after 13 years at Penguin Random House. more »
AI is the number one issue facing the industry, says Allison Belan, the newly appointed executive director of the Book Industry Study Group. One of her goals is to create an early warning system to alert the industry to looming problems. more »
Join Amazon Business August 20 for a live webcast on Amazon Library Hub. Learn how libraries simplify procurement, manage budgets, and save staff time, with personalized guidance in live breakout sessions. Can't attend live? Register anyway for on-demand access. (Sponsored) More »
Amid a post-Comixology landscape, both longstanding comics publishers and upstart digital retailers are carving out new approaches to producing, selling, and finding readers for online comics. more »
On the heels of the success of John Byrne’s newest X-Men story, the editorial director of Abrams ComicsArts discusses making comics that the Big Two can’t and his vision for the publisher’s growing comics division. more »
Deadline: Sept. 25. The nomination window for PW Star Watch 2026 is now open. This year’s program will honor innovators, changemakers, and trailblazers who work in the American and Canadian publishing and bookselling industries who are under 40 years of age as of Sept. 1, 2026. To nominate someone, please fill out the form at publishersweekly.com/starwatch2026. more »
In his latest novel, the bestselling author challenges ideas about race and the American dream. more »
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- SENIOR ACQUISITIONS EDITOR - The University of Alabama Press - Tuscaloosa, AL.
- Director of The Johns Hopkins University Press - The Johns Hopkins University Press - Baltimore, MD.
- Founding Sales & Marketing Manager - Confidential.
Job Moves
- Nicole Pedersen has been promoted to assistant director of production editorial at Penguin Random House, Corporate Bookmaking, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
- Emma Tamayo has been promoted to assistant managing editor at Penguin Random House, Corporate Bookmaking, Penguin Publishing Group.
- Brittney West has been promoted to assistant managing editor at Penguin Random House, Corporate Bookmaking, Penguin Publishing Group.
- Supipi Weerasooriya has been promoted to sales representative at Penguin Random House Canada.
- Sara James has been promoted to senior sales manager at Penguin Random House Canada.
Bookstore News
- Missouri Fantasy: Hardback Books is set to open later this month in midtown Kansas City, specializing in fantasy and sci-fi.
- Wisconsin Store on the Roll: Gilda Bour is bringing her mobile bookstore to Elmwood Village, where she plans to open an indoor shop this winter.
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The New Prophecy (Warriors Graphic Novel #1) by Erin Hunter and Gibson Twist, illustrated by Sammy Savos, is the #1 title on our children’s frontlist fiction bestseller list. See the full list »
‘The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford’ by Nafissa Thompson-Spires“Thompson-Spires crafts a sizzling tale of a bootlegging bigamist and oil magnate’s mysterious death in 1927 Oklahoma.... Readers will be floored.” more »
Picture of the Day
On August 10, Massachusetts governor Maura Healey signed into law “An Act Regarding Free Expression,” which makes it more difficult to ban books in the state. The signing ceremony took place at the Franklin Library in Franklin, Mass., the oldest public lending library in the United States.
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