Publishing world

I have my own company, Alex Hippisley-Cox PR Ltd, and I handle the PR, Marketing and Communications for a number of book industry clients including Frankfurter Buchmesse (for the UK), the Chalke Valley History Festival, Bitter Lemon Press and the LoveReading LitFest.

People of Color in Publishing and Latinx in Publishing collaborated on an online survey in summer and fall 2018, reaching out to current and former BIPOC industry members about the extent to which they've experienced racism on the job. The results of the survey are now being released in a report, "Workplace Racism Survey," that documents the ways racism manifests itself at publishing houses.  Read more

‘Changing the world is hard and the highest ideals may have unintended consequences,' writes Richard Charkin in his column of queries on issues in the publishing industry's self-examination.

In a presentation that was part of Credit Suisse's 23rd annual communications conference, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray said he sees no signs of consumer book spending slowing down in 2021-nor does he see the trend toward greater consolidation of the publishing industry cooling.  Read more

Seven years ago, when Amazon was in the midst of a contentious pricing battle with one of the country's largest publishers, a group of famous authors banded together to make the case that publishing was a crucial industry for the nation's cultural and intellectual life.