Annie Mazes has joined Workman as adult library marketing manager for Workman Publishing. She had worked in library marketing at HarperCollins. At the Penguin Publishing Group, Lily Rudd has been promoted to the new position of manager, business development. Jeff Dean will join Harvard University Press on September 14 as executive editor for physical sciences and technology. He was most recently senior publisher at Focal Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis. Awards The winners of this year’s Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards are Meehan Crist (nonfiction), Vanessa Hua, Natalie Haney Tilghman, and Amanda Rea (fiction), and Ashley M. Jones and Britteney Black Rose Kapri […]
Archives for September 2015
Trade Sales Fall In May
The AAP reported May sales from their approximately 1,200 reporting publishers, with a soft April giving way to across the board declines. Adult sales of $364 million were down $19 million (or 5 percent), with adult hardcover sales falling $23 million (or 17 percent) to $110 million for the month. Children’s and YA sales fell $13.6 million, or 9 percent, also weak in hardcovers (even as children’s paperbacks rose $8.4 million, to $56.6 million for the month). And yes, eBook sales declined as well, at $106.6 million, down $16.3 million (or 13 percent). As in previous months, the falloff was bigger in children’s […]
Hachette Book Group Consolidates Full US Distribution of Hachette UK
In a logical if perhaps overdue more, Hachette Book Group has announced that as of January 2016 they will handle full sales and distribution for Hachette UK titles in the United States. HBG has represented some Hachette UK lines — such as Octopus Books — for many years, and recently added others, like the Asterix line, in early 2015, along with acquired lines such Quercus, which was purchased by Hachette UK in mid-2014. And HBG has handled most Hachette UK titles in Canada since 2010. But other Hachette UK titles remained with Trafalgar Square for US distribution. HBG says that Hachette […]
Amazon’s September Picks
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies (which you can preview now, ahead of publication, in our free ebook Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter, along with Mary Karr’s memoir) is Amazon’s spotlight pick for September, and Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine is their featured debut. The rest of Amazon’s books of the month for September are: The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr Reckless: My Life as a Pretender, Chrissie Hynde Purity, Jonathan Franzen Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling Did You Ever Have A Family, Bill Clegg Library of Souls, Ransom Riggs The Pentagon’s Brain, Annie […]