Publisher tries stealth exit from trade publishing; tells no one

Kaplan, the publisher of Something To Prove, a book I co-authored with Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton, decided to get out of the trade book business–but never told its trade book authors or their agents.

Rather than go into all the gory details here, I’ll let Erik Sherman’s article tell the tale. Here’s a snippet:

…when Thornton, working with co-author Anita Bartholomew, wrote a second memoir in 2009, the new title, Something to Prove, had multiple publishing houses bidding for it. Thornton actually turned down St. Martin’s Press to work with Kaplan Publishing for a significantly smaller advance, as she told CBS MoneyWatch…

Something to Prove came out late last year. Unfortunately for Thornton, so did the decision at Kaplan that the trade publishing division was a waste of time.