Book publishers worldwide are grappling with the digital transition, figuring out ebook pricing and competing against a massive number of other forms of entertainment. Here’s how these themes played out at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
Just about a year after it hired publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum to launch a New York-based imprint, Amazon is announcing a new high-profile hire: Sara Nelson, the former books editor for Oprah’s “O” magazine and, before that, editor-in-chief of trade mag “Publishers Weekly.”
Reed Business Information — which has been busily unloading its magazines — has now sold Publishers Weekly, which had been in a state of d…
An all-hands staff meeting has been called for 9:30 a.m. at Publishers Weekly, according to a source familiar with the situation. PW is one…
