Publishers or reps interested in participating in the monthly Rep Picks sessions should be sure they're added to the database of reps also by e-mailing Larry Law. All events will be recorded and made available to members.Īnyone with suggestions for education topics or presenters for Heartland Summer should e-mail GLIBA executive director Larry Law. "It will be sustained by an exhibits page on our website that hosts our summer content while also allowing publishers and industry members to bring you the show specials, creative assets, ARC request forms, and the necessary forms of connection we usually provide." In October, the associations will host a bigger virtual celebration, including a Heartland Booksellers Award celebration and the Heartland Book Club. In the meantime, instead of the Fall Forum, MIBA and GLIBA will hold a virtual event, Heartland Summer, lasting from June through September, that will feature "an ongoing array of events-education, rep picks and author events-all virtual and easy to attend and enjoy," the associations said. Like other regional booksellers associations, the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association have decided not to hold their joint fall conference, Heartland Fall Forum, in person and plan to host it next year in the site chosen for 2020, St. Earlier he founded the Twelve imprint at Hachette Book Group and before that worked for 16 years at Random House, where he began as an editorial assistant and eventually became editor-in-chief. Karp joined S&S as publisher of Simon & Schuster in 2010. Together, we will honor and uphold our nearly hundred-year tradition of innovation and excellence, with laughter and learning along the way." We will maintain our culture of straightforward and creative collaboration, in which anyone from every corner of our organization can suggest any idea.
I owe Carolyn a debt I will never be able to repay to her, but I will do everything I can to pay it forward by sustaining her standards and humanity through my work with you. Karp paid tribute to the late Carolyn Reidy, saying, "Over the past 10 years, Carolyn Reidy has shown me how an executive communicates and leads-candidly, firmly, warmly, attentively, and generously. Our slate of books for the rest of 2020 is one of our strongest in years, and I can't wait to hear the conversations these books generate." We will continue to do all we can to make sure their voices are heard. Our authors and their books are an essential part of this cultural conversation.
Karp called this is "an especially crucial time to be publishing books, when so many readers are looking for direction and inspiration. As we search for meaning in the chaos and joy amid the sadness, the books we champion will serve as a beacon and a balm." What has changed are the times into which we will be discovering and publishing these books. "Our mission remains the same: to publish the most satisfying books we can find, with passion and purpose and profitability. I am grateful to Bob Bakish for his faith in me, and to all of you for your spirit of cooperation and support through the years. Karp, who has been president and publisher of S&S Adult Publishing, said in a letter to staff yesterday that he is honored by the appointment and that despite the challenges of the past four months-"a pandemic, a prospective sale, and the loss of our extraordinary leader, Carolyn Reidy"-he can't imagine "a more exciting opportunity than to lead Simon & Schuster, known equally as a home to beloved authors and for its long history of innovation and excellence in publishing. Jonathan Karp has been named president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, succeeding Carolyn Reidy, who died suddenly on May 12.
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