Interesting News in Publishing – July 2020

 

Interesting News in Publishing
July 2020

Companies                                                                                                                                    

AMAZON 

Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2020 Grant Recipients
…broader literary and publishing community. In addition to the 66 grants gifted this year, the Amazon Literary Partnership has also awarded $120,000 …
BusinessWire

AMISTAD PRESS

How Tracy Sherrod Came to Lead America’s Oldest Black Publishing Imprint
Sherrod shared how she got into publishing, how she came to work at Amistad, who reads books by and about Black people, and the economics of the …
Slate Magazine

APPLE

Maurice Sendak Foundation Signs Overall Deal with Apple TV Plus
Sendak wrote and illustrated no fewer than 17 books, and lent his artistic talents as an illustrator to over one hundred other titles, including Else …
Variety

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