Amazon announced its list of the Best Books of 2019 So Far, with the recently-published City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead) as its overall top pick. Also on the list are several titles excerpted in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler: The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides (Celadon); Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,…
Hachette Book Group Introduces Metered Model for Digital Sales to Libraries
Hachette Book Group announced it is changing its model for digital product sales to libraries. Starting July 1, the publisher will shift from perpetual ownership of e-books and digital audiobooks to “a two-year metered model.” In their version, those materials can be lent, an unlimited number of times, on a one-user-per-copy basis, for two years…
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that evp and chief learning officer Rosamund Else-Mitchell will leave effective June 28. She will receive a year’s salary, among other benefits. An agreement between the parties “also provides for a release of certain claims by Ms. Else-Mitchell against the company, mutual non-disparagement obligations, certain confidentiality requirements, and non-competition and non-solicitation…
First Quarter AAP Sales Are Ahead of Recent Average, Clouded By Continuing Restatements
The AAP reported monthly StatShot statistics for March and, as with the first two reports of 2019, the news is not what you will read elsewhere. The remarkable finding continues to be a significant restatement of adult sales for the previous year, with early 2018 weaker than previously shown. Once again, the tabulation of adult…
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At the Random House publishing group vp, deputy publisher, Del Rey Keith Clayton takes the additional role of vp, director of licensing, for the Random House Group, working across Random House imprints to identify and grow the licensed publishing programs. In the new role, he reports to Scott Shannon and Aaron Wehner. Michelle Giuseffi has…
Waxman’s The Bookish Life of Nina Hill Tops July Library Reads
The Top Pick for July’s Library Reads list is The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman. Also on the list is J. Ryan Stradal’s The Lager Queen of Minnesota, excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The other picks: The Book Charmer, by Karen Hawkins The Escape Room,…