“Cautious optimism” is the buzzword of the AP’s fall preview, as a fall season crowded with titles (especially literary fiction, not to mention one by someone named Dan Brown) has publishers in a better mood. “It’s not that we’re back to the extremely strong sales of more than a year ago, but we’re trending upward,” S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy said. “After taking our expectations down for so long, we’re finally taking them up.” Or as Left Bank Books co-owner Barry Leibman phrased it, “”We were down 20 percent this summer, which I used to think of as horrible. But we […]
