At Book Expo America last week, Nielsen svp global managing director Jonathan Stolper presented some data from across Nielsen’s tracking services, including — for the first time — ebook data from PubTrack Digital. Because of misunderstandings about how various industry data views are compiled, you may have encountered some confused or incorrect accounts of this new data elsewhere. PubTrack Digital reports actual unit ebook sales, in the same way that Bookscan reports actual unit print book sales. While Bookscan reports weekly — getting sales data direct from retailers — PubTrack Digital reports monthly, and gets sales on a delayed basis […]
Archives for June 2015
People, Etc.
Amanda O’Connor will join Trident Media Group as an agent on June 15, representing general interest and upmarket non-fiction, literary fiction, spirituality and wellness. She had been an editor at Crown’s discontinued Image Books. At Simon & Schuster, Emily Graff has been promoted to editor. Avalon Radys has joined Inkshares as marketing manager. Previously she was editor-in-chief at Umano. Declan Taintor has joined Picador as senior publicist. He was previously a publicist at powerHouse Books. Literackie in Poland has appointed Eccles Fisher Associates as its scout, effective immediately. David Higham Associates has acquired Toby Eady Associates, founded in 1968. “Eady will continue to work […]
People: Barer, Bender, Bloom & Weed Form The Book Group; Allison to Retire from Berkley
Julie Barer, Faye Bender, Brettne Bloom and Elisabeth Weed are launching The Book Group, a new full-service literary agency. Barer, Bender, and Weed have each spent the past 10 years running their own agencies; Bloom joins from Kneerim, Williams & Bloom, where she spent the past 15 years (and 3 as a partner.) With Bloom’s departure her former agency will revert back to its earlier name, Kneerim & Williams. “Brettne is a great agent, and she has all our congratulations on the new venture,” Jill Kneerim told us, adding the agency “salutes Bloom in her new enterprise.” In addition, Newbery […]
EL James’ Next Novel GREY Publishes on June 18
Vintage will publish EL James‘ next novel GREY on June 18 as a trade paperback and ebook. The sequel to the FIFTY SHADES trilogy will be told from Christian Grey’s perspective, with the June 18 publication date apparently chosen to commemorate the character’s birthday. James said in the announcement on her website: “Christian is a complex character, and readers have always been fascinated by his desires and motivations, and his troubled past. Also, as anyone who has ever been in a relationship knows, there are two sides to every story. It’s been a great pleasure to return to my happy […]
Bookselling: June Picks From Amazon, iBooks Costco, Target; Independent Bookstore Day 2016
Amazon‘s “spotlight pick” for June is Jami Attenberg’s Saint Mazie and their “featured debut” is Erika Swyler’s The Book of Speculation. Their other best books of June top picks are: Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg, Modern Romance Mia Alvar, In The Country Sarah Hepola, Blackout Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night Stephen King, Finders Keepers Robert Kurson, Pirate Hunters *Paolo Baciagalupi, The Water Knife Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years Meanwhile King’s Finders Keepers leads off iBooks‘ June fiction picks, while Kurson’s Pirate Hunters tops the nonfiction monthly selections. The full lists include: Fiction The […]