Announcement from the Donohue Group, a cataloging business
After almost 38 years in business The Donohue Group, Inc. is closing its doors within the next few months. We have loved working with you, and we want to make sure you find a new vendor to meet your needs. There are only a few companies that do this specialized work, and one is Cassidy Cataloguing, of Rockaway, New Jersey. Cassidy has been in the cataloging business almost as long as DGI, and they are a small, woman-owned business (just like DGI).
If you are interested in working with Cassidy, please contact them as soon as possible. Please contact Joni Cassidy directly at: joni@cassidycat.com. Tani Eckstrand and I are in conversations with Cassidy to join their team, and we will keep you posted
Our online order form is shut down. We understand this may cause a disruption in your publishing workflow; we hope to ensure a smooth transition for any publishers that opt to work with Cassidy beginning in May.
We are available to answer questions; please don’t hesitate to contact pcip@dgiinc.com. We ask you to not call our office; most of us work remotely these days, and email is the fastest and best way to reach us.
It has truly been a privilege to serve your library-cataloging needs, and we wish all of you the best as you continue your publishing journeys!
Regards,
Pat McCurdy-Crescimanno, MLS Project Manager, PCIP Donohue Group, Inc.
From Wordsrated, an independent organization that studies books and publishing:
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- Long books (over 400 pages) are disappearing; the share of long bestsellers went from 54% in 2011 to 38% in 2021, a 30% drop.
- Long books stayed 4.4 weeks longer on the bestsellers list than short books (under 400 pages) until 2016. Since 2016 short books have been on the list 1.9 weeks longer than long books.
- People read longer books during winter; bestsellers are 35 pages (8.2%) shorter from April to September (392 pages) compared to October through March (427 pages).
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