Possible New Direction for Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Series

[tomswift2002]

Publisher's Weekly is reporting that Simon & Schuster has cut 35 jobs.  Some of these cuts include the head of Simon & Schuster's Children's Division, the VP of the Children's Division.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6619516.html


Could this mean a different direction for the Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers series?

[whitetigers]

Hopefully they wont quit all together! They are the only thing new being printed besides the Graphic novels, aren't they? And if so, would another publishing firm take over?

[003Robin457]

Just so long as there is another HB I'm fine.

[SDLagent]

Interesting news. Thanks for posting, Tom. I find this especially note worthy:

Early in the day, S&S announced that the head of its children?s group, Rick Richter will leave the company at the end of the week. PW has since learned that Rubin Pfeffer, senior v-p and publisher of the children?s group is also departing. Pfeffer joined S&S in 2005. He had been senior v-p and chief creative officer at Pearson Education, and before that spent 26 years with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

[tomswift2002]

Interesting news. Thanks for posting, Tom. I find this especially note worthy:

I know.  That Pfeffer joined around the time the Undercover Brothers debutted. 

[Olivia]

I really wonder what will happen.

[FrankJoeATAC]

I would hate it if HBs stopped all together! I really hope HBs can be written by another company or something like that.

[Bigfootman]

Maybe the hardy's are heading back to Archway paperbacks, and that could only mean one thing, continued casefiles!

[003Robin457]

Or mabey they can share the rights and Casefiles and UBs can coexist.

[SDLagent]

Maybe the hardy's are heading back to Archway paperbacks, and that could only mean one thing, continued casefiles!

Archway Paperbacks was just an imprint of S&S.

[tomswift2002]

Archway Paperbacks was just an imprint of S&S.

And Archway Paperbacks were printed by S&S's Pocket Books arm, and in 2000-2001 S&S consolidated all their children's publishing lines into their S&S Children's printing division.  So, right now, Archway Paperbacks is just like Wanderer Books, a dead and discontinued division at S&S.

[Bigfootman]

Then this my mean the end of the Hardy Boys! 

[whitetigers]

Geez, i hope not! Even the Undercover Brothers are better than nothing new at all.

[003Robin457]

I think the HBs will be around in some form, but I hope they keep the GNs or have GNs for what ever comes next.