This week’s fiction releases include new novels by William Kent Krueger, Richard Russo, LaToya Watkins, and Freida McFadden, while nonfiction includes work by Gil Durán and Joby Warrick. 29 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-august-18 20 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-august-18 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out August‘s 105 fiction releases, 20 works of nonfiction, and 25 children’s titles, September‘s 132 fiction releases, 118 works of nonfiction, and 24 children’s titles, and October‘s 130 fiction releases, 102 […]
Distribution: Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet will be sold and distributed by Macmillan in the US starting March 1, 2027. They have been distributed by Hachette Book Group USA. Lonely Planet continues to be distributed by Hachette in the UK and Penguin Random House in Australia.
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Forthcoming: Sarah J. Maas’ ‘A Court of Splintered Harmony’ and ‘A Court of Forgotten Melody’
The next two books in Sarah J. Maas‘s “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series are called A Court of Splintered Harmony (Book 6 in the series, publishing October 7) and A Court of Forgotten Melody (Book 7, publishing January 12), the author announced on her Instagram. The covers, which Maas also revealed, note that ACOSH is “The Valkyrie Cycle: Movement I” and ACOFM is “The Valkyrie Cycle: Movements II & III.”
Ask An Expert: Atria Senior Editor Loan Le
Loan Le is a senior editor at Atria Books. She edits layered upmarket fiction and stylish, literary fiction with genre propulsion. Her talented authors have received recognition from the Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada), the Center for Fiction, the New York Times, Thrillerfest, the Bram Stoker Awards, and more. When Loan is not working as a book editor, she is writing. Her most recent book is Solving for the Unknown, a companion novel to her debut A Pho Love Story. You edited this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Angel Down by Daniel Kraus, which has the unusual format of being […]
Amazon is Scanning and Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
A shipment of rare books arrived at an Amazon warehouse that is dedicated to scanning them for AI training, 404 Media found in an investigation. 404 coordinated with an anonymous bookseller to place an Apple AirTag in one book that was part of a shipment of 1,000 that ended up at a Las Vegas Amazon warehouse known as LAS8. Part of that warehouse goes by the name VGT3, which has a logo on its entrance of a Tyrannosaurus Rex holding a book. According to posts in online forums, employees at this facility say “all we do is scan books,” 404 […]