The Tor.com publishing imprint announced last May will begin publishing 3 to 4 titles a month starting in September. A blog post introduces six of their early titles, as senior editor Lee Harris writes: “We’ve been working hard to find some great novellas to launch our line, and we’ve been delighted by the quality and breadth of the stories we received.” Meanwhile, director of publicity at Harper Collins Tina Andreadis clarifies for USA Today that the jacket design for Harper Lee’s forthcoming Go Set A Watchman posted on some bookselling sites recently was just a placeholder. But the sparse design […]
Archives for February 2015
The Complete Spring/Summer Adult Buzz Books
Winter Institute comes to a close Wednesday and those 500 booksellers will head home with lots of galleys, while we are supplying thousands of people — both trade professionals but also readers all over — with pre-publication excerpts from 40 top new titles in our recently published free ebook Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer. You can get an EPUB of the trade edition directly from our site, or if you prefer, it’s “read now” download at NetGalley (where it already has 75 five- and four-star reviews) and on Edelweiss. The consumer edition is available on Amazon Kindle, Apple’s iBookstore, Barnes and Noble Nook, Kobo, and Google Play. Here […]
People, Etc.
Director of order management at Simon & Schuster Francine Leinheiser will retire on February 27 after more than 38 years with the company, and 12 years in her current position. In a statement, vp, distribution & fulfillment Dave Schaeffer praised Leinheiser as “a true Simon & Schuster lifer,” adding: “We will remember her as an organizer, a communicator, a cheerful presence and a true professional who played a major role in our success in bringing thousands of titles to our accounts on time. Now she will have some time to read many of the books that she, like many of […]
Scribd Adds Comics, Jeb Bush Samples Book of eMails
Scribd‘s latest addition to their subscription catalog is a comics vertical, with over 10,000 comic books and graphic novels from publishers including Marvel, Valiant, IDW/Top Shelf and Archie. CEO Trip Adler says in the announcement, “We are very excited to take this step in expanding our subscription service beyond books. This addition gives comics readers the freedom of unlimited reading, while also giving our ebook and audiobook lovers the opportunity to discover comics and graphic novels.” For a different type of ereading, Jeb Bush has posted a PDF of first chapter of his forthcoming ebook, which chronicles his time as governor of Florida […]
Cynthia Bond’s RUBY is Latest Oprah Pick; Krakauer’s MISSOULA to Publish April 21
Oprah’s revived Book Club, which now only picks books about once a year, has selected Cynthia Bond’s debut novel RUBY as its latest choice. (Its previous selection, in early 2014, was THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd.) The novel was published in hardcover last April by Hogarth to a modest reception. Those who reviewed it praised the book but it was overlooked by all of the major outlets, with hardcover sales as recorded by Nielsen Bookscan under 3,000. The publisher has announced a first paperback printing of 250,000 copies (with the Oprah book club logo) and a special digital […]
Lagardere Publishing Sales Fall In Fourth Quarter and Full Year
Lagardere reported fourth quarter sales on Tuesday, with publishing sales of €537 million down 5.5 percent from€569 million a year ago — and declining further, 8.7 percent, on a like-for-like basis. (Sales fell even with a foreign exchange gain of €14 million.) The company blamed “an unfavorable comparison effect” to a strong fourth quarter in 2013, though it’s clear that Lagardere Publishing sales were soft for the entire year. Full-year sales registered €2.004 million, down 3 percent from €2.066 million a year ago — a 3 percent topline decline, and a 4.5 percent like-for-like decline. That is the lowest sales […]