Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Shares Approach To Leadership and Vision for Transformation of USPS

Following its acquisition of NWEA earlier this year, learning technology company HMH today announced an important first step for the combined organization. NWEA’s flagship assessment MAP Growth will now be used for automatic placement into HMH’s best-in-class connected solutions Read 180, Math 180 and Waggle to further enhance personalized learning. Customers using NWEA MAP Growth with HMH Waggle will benefit from placement into Waggle’s CODiE-award winning gamified personalized learning. The Read 180 and Math 180 student applications, trusted and effective intervention programs built on decades of research, will use MAP Growth data to place students into Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention. This offers educators a powerful new option to deepen student learning through more targeted placement based on refined data.

USA TODAY announced the return of its Best-selling Booklist featuring expanded content, the ability to filter by genre, updated tools to enable data collection as well as new partnerships that support independent booksellers across the country in USA TODAY Network markets. “USA TODAY Best-selling Booklist is back, and we couldn’t be more thrilled because this content is important to our vast audience and uniquely supports the communities we serve,” said Kristin Roberts, Gannett Media Chief Content Officer. “Readers, authors, publishers, booksellers and those who cherish books can experience our data driven best-sellers list again.” USA TODAY's Best-selling Booklist, a leading force in the market since 1993, ranks the 150 top-selling book titles weekly based exclusively on sales analysis from U.S. booksellers including bookstore chains, independent bookstores, mass merchandisers and online retailers.

Total revenues across all categories for June 2024 were up 6.2% as compared to June 2023, coming in at $1.1 billion. Year-to-date revenues were up 5.6%, at $6.3 billion for the first six months of the year. Trade (Consumer Books) revenues were up 4.5% in June, coming in at $677.0 million. In terms of physical paper format revenues during the month of June, in the Trade (Consumer Books) category, Hardback revenues were up 6.6%, coming in at $212.5 million; Paperbacks were up 0.3%, with $249.3 million in revenue; Mass Market was down 17.5% to $11.7 million; and Special Bindings were up 32.3%, with $15.5 million in revenue. eBook revenues were up 5.4% for the month as compared to June 2023 for a total of $84.8 million, and the Digital Audio format was up 6.2% for June, coming in at $79.7 million in revenue. Physical Audio was down 20.3% coming in at $800 thousand.