Amazon and Barnes & Noble both posted their February “books of the month”–and both booksellers agree with the Indie Next list in selecting Herman Koch’s THE DINNER and Karen Russell’s VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE (as long as you have read her splendid SWAMPLANDIA! first). The WSJ also echoes the positioning of Koch’s book […]
Archives for January 2013
People: Harrison Moves Up to Scribner EIC
Recently promoted Scribner publisher Nan Graham announced to staff on Wednesday that senior editor Colin Harrison has been promoted to fill Graham’s previous position of editor-in-chief. She writes: “Some of you may believe Colin already has had a leadership role at Scribner, so authoritative is he, such a mentor and guide, not just to our […]
People, Etc.: Mantel Wins Overall Costa Prize
Hilary Mantel won the Costa Book of the Year Prize Tuesday afternoon for BRING UP THE BODIES, making her the first author to win the Booker and Costa for the same book. Judging chair Jenni Murray said the unanimous decision took “less than an hour”, telling the Guardian: “One book simply stood head and shoulders, […]
Amazon’s Slim Profit Gets Smaller Still; Bezos Confirms eBooks A “Multi-Billion Dollar Category”
Amazon reported fourth quarter sales after the close of the market on Tuesday, coming in at the low end of their own sales projections. That means that sales of $21.27 billion, up 22 percent, also fell $1 billion short of analysts’ expectations. The company did show some net income–but it was a slim $97 million […]
People, Etc.
Juliet Pickering will move to Blake Friedmann in the UK on February 4 as a book agent. She was most recently at AP Watt (now part of United Agents). Pickering’s client list is moving with her. At NetGalley, Stuart Evers has been hired as UK community manager, based in London, and Steve Manes joins the development […]
S&S Will Publish Salinger “Oral Biography” in September
Simon & Schuster announced it will publish THE PRIVATE WAR OF JD SALINGER, a new “oral biography” co-written by film producer Shane Salerno and David Shields, in September. The project began life as a documentary more than eight years ago (and which Deadline first wrote about in 2010), and the resulting film, which includes interviews […]