Publishers Rushing Trump Books; Last Gasp Shuts Distribution

[PW Daily: Breaking book business, bookselling and author news, bestsellers lists and publishing deals.] [2017 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award] [Publishers Rushing Books on Coping with Trump's Election] Three publishers are rushing out books targeted to help readers who are opposed to Donald Trump's election cope over the next four years. [more »] [Last Gasp Shuts Down its Distribution Operation] The iconic San Francisco publisher and distributor of books and comics is getting out of the distribution business after December 2016 and will focus on its publishing operations. [more »] [Global Kids Connect Surveys China, Latin America and Brexit] Organized by PW and the Bologna Children's Book Fair, the Global Kids Connect conference examined a booming Chinese kids' book marketplace, a renewed rights market in Spain and Latin America, and currency exchange issues after Brexit. [more »] [Win an iPad Loaded with Publishers Weekly's Best Books for 2016] For more about these and other jobs, visit [PW JobZone]. To post a new job, [click here]. - Quarto Publishing Group USA is seeking a [Design Manager]. - Hachette Book Group is seeking a [Marketing Assistant- Basic Books]. - Midwest Library Service is seeking a [Sales Representative]. - Island Press is seeking a [Senior Publicist]. - Scholastic is seeking a [Manufacturing Preproduction Planner I]. JOB MOVES Roger Lee has joined Ingram Content Group as v-p of credit. Bonnie Dailey, formerly senior implementation analyst and quality supervisor at Geodis Contract Logistics, has joined Ingram Publisher Services as client implementation manager. Bunmi Western, formerly U.K. and international sales director at Atlantic Books, has joined Ingram Publisher Services as London sales and marketing director in the London office. Emeli Warren has been promoted to associate editor at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Caitlin Kleinschmidt, formerly associate marketing manager at Penguin Random House, has joined Workman Publishing as associate manager of national accounts. [VIEW ALL »] [Annick Press's Colleen MacMillan to Retire, Vancouver Office to Close] After 17 years as the associate publisher of Annick Press, Colleen MacMillan will retire on February 3. The move means that Annick, which has its main office in Toronto, will close its Vancouver outpost at the end of December. [more » »] [Stordahl Joins Holiday House] Derek Stordahl, formerly executive v-p at Bloomsbury USA, has been appointed executive v-p and general manager of Holiday House Publishing. [more » »] [iBooks Bestsellers: A Hit In 'No Man's Land'] David Baldacci's 'No Man's Land' pulls back up to the top of the iBooks bestseller list this week, sending James Patterson's 'Cross the Line' tumbling down to #4. [more » »] THE ROUNDUP [Bookseller Robert Wilson Dies at 94]: Wilson, who died in Baltimore on November 29, turned Greenwich Village's Phoenix Book Shop into a home for poets such as Allen Ginsberg. [The Most Beautiful Book Covers of 2016]: 32 books that you are more than welcome to judge by the cover, from 'Sweetbitter' to 'Swing Time.' [Are Small Publishers England's Future?]: These days, it is minimally staffed and funded firms in the U.K. who invest in new authors, while the giants avoid such risk. [A Farewell to BookCourt]: The beloved, family-owned and family-run bookshop in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn showed what a bookstore can do. [Book-Themed Travel Guides]: Literary city guides, which map out for the bookish tourist the literary sites and history of cities around the world. [VIEW ALL »] PW Bestsellers [Trade Paperback Bestseller List] 'The Girl On the Train' by Paula Hawkins is the #1 title on PW's trade paperback bestseller list. [See the full list » »] PW DAILY REVIEW OF THE DAY ['The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship' by Alex Beam] "In this intriguing and melancholy chronicle, Boston Globe columnist Beam traces the rise and fall of the friendship between Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov." [Read more » »] SHELFTALKER [The Island of Misfit Books] Kenny Brechner Three intriguing mimatched books rescued from the Island are featured. [more »] PICTURE OF THE DAY [Authors of Sunlight and Shadow] A sold-out crowd gathered at the Whitney in New York on December 5 for the launch of 'In Sunlight or In Shadow' (Pegasus), a fiction anthology inspired by Edward Hopper paintings and edited by Lawrence Block. Pictured here (from l. to r.): contributors Warren Moore, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Gail Levin, Megan Abbott, Jonathan Santlofer, Lee Child, and editor Block, with Pegasus Books deputy publisher Jessica Case. 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