The National Book Foundation kicked off its week of longlist announcements with the nominees for the award for Young People’s Literature. The list includes previous winner Cynthia Kadohata (2013), as well as finalists Jason Reynolds (2016), Laura Ruby (2015), and Laurie Halse Anderson (2008, 1999). Finalists will be announced on October 8. The complete list: …
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Dylan Julian has joined Workman as associate production editor. Previously, he was managing editorial assistant at Penguin Random House. Samantha Wekstein will join Thompson Literary Agency as agent for children’s books, young adult, and adult commercial fiction on October 7. She is currently an agent at Writers House. At Orion, Vicky Eribo will join Seven Dials…
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Longtime Barnes & Noble svp, corporate communications Mary Ellen Keating is leaving the company after 21 years “now that the company has found a new owner.” She writes in a farewell letter to booksellers, “I want to wish our new owners, Elliott Advisors, the best of success in continuing our quest, and enhancing our prospects…
Audible Says Publishers Have A Contract Dispute, Not A Copyright Infringement Case
Audible filed their reply to publishers’ request for a preliminary injunction blocking the release of the Captions feature on their work, and the company used the same arguments to file a separate motion to dismiss the case entirely. Of course if Audible actually means what they have been writing to self-published authors and independent publishers…
ALA Starts Anti-Macmillan Petition, Continues to Give Amazon A Free Pass
The American Library Association has launched a petition in which Macmillan is urged to reconsider the company’s planned eight-week windowing of all but one copy of new-release ebooks to libraries. “ALA’s goal is to send a clear message to Macmillan’s CEO John Sargent: e-book access should be neither denied nor delayed,” said ALA Executive Director…
Co-Owner of One Book Culture Store Says They Don’t Need Customer Loans
Harper’s publisher John “Rick” MacArthur, who owns 40 percent of the Book Culture bookstore on Columbus Avenue in NYC, is concerned that partner Chris Doeblin — who operates the three other Book Culture stores under a different entity — is “raising money on the false premise that Book Culture on Columbus is on the verge…