After a positive report for January driven by lower holiday returns, AAP-reported trade sales for February fell over 14 percent, down to $392 million — a $65 million decline compared to February 2014. Adult sales of $305 million were down 8.3 percent (from $329 million) and children’s/YA sales fell further, down 22.5 percent to $87 million (a drop of $40 million). Adult trade paperback sales actually rose by $12 million (and they were the biggest gainer in January as well), but hardcover sales were off by $18.5 million. eBook sales fell again, down by over $21 million (or more than […]
Archives for June 2015
Buck’s Oregon Trail Leads July Indie Next List
The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for July. The rest of the list includes two books, The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler and The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich, featured in our Spring/Summer Buzz Books 2015 ebook, and also includes the following: The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George The Truth and Other Lies, by Sascha Arango The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins Bull Mountain, by Brian Panowich Language Arts, by Stephanie Kallos My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, by Fredrik Backman Love May Fail, by […]
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Karen Thomas will take over as publisher of Cleis Press and Viva Editions, following the resignation of Brenda Knight and other staff last month. Editorial and production offices will move to the Jersey City office of parent firm Start Publishing in July. Thomas was most recently executive editor at Grand Central Publishing and was the founding editor of Dafina Books. For clarity, Springer Nature has underscored that both Palgrave Macmillan academic imprint and the Palgrave higher ed line continue unchanged. As reported earlier this week, it’s the Palgrave trade imprint that was incorporated into St. Martin’s in 2014 that is retiring the Palgrave name.
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Catherine Makk will join HarperCollins as vp, global insight on June 8, reporting to Chantal Restivo-Alessi. Makk was previously director, retail and consumer insights at Vogue and in her role will also serve as consumer insight lead for Harlequin, HarperCollins Canada and the company’s global publishing team. In addition, Jim Hanas has been promoted to senior director, audience development & insight, while Allison Jarvela has been named senior manager, consumer insight. Jarvela was previously a market research analyst at Wiley. Sarah Knight is leaving Simon & Schuster, where she was a senior editor for the past five years, on June […]
St. Martin’s Closes Palgrave Imprint
St. Martin’s Press is closing the Palgrave Macmillan trade imprint that they integrated in 2014 and will absorb the imprint’s staff, the result of “a structural realignment of Macmillan’s international educational resources” after the merger of Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science + Business Media into Springer Nature. SMP “will begin phasing out the use of the name Palgrave immediately,” publishing those new titles under the St. Martin’s Press and Griffin imprints. Current Palgrave editorial staff will continue to manage previously acquired projects and begin to take on general St. Martin’s assignments: Karen Wolny will become executive editor; Elisabeth Dyssegaard continues as […]
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At Penguin Random House, head of global corporate finance Milena Alberti is being promoted to chief financial officer as July 1, succeeding Coram Williams as he returns to Pearson as their CFO. Alberti will join the Penguin Random House board of directors, as well as the company’s North American board and global executive committee. James Johnston is being promoted to the new position of svp, deputy chief financial officer under Alberti, serving in both worldwide and U.S. capacities. Kate Geraghty has been promoted to vp, communications for Macmillan Higher Education and Macmillan New Ventures. At Grand Central Publishing, Caitlin Mulrooney-Lyski has been promoted to […]