While many are waiting on the name of the Prince of Cambridge, the UK’s Booker Prize released a list of 13 names — their longlist of possible contenders for this year’s award. The real list of nominees will be issued September 10. The longlist of 13 titles is mainly useful to help publishers prepare to adjust publication dates, since 5 of the books have not been published at all yet in the UK (only 6 are out in the US). And it can lay the groundwork for rights sales (or intracorporate publication arrangements), since four titles appear to have no […]
