Gayle Forman’s novel for adults, Leave Me, is the no. 1 pick for the September Library Reads List. You can start reading an excerpt of another novel on the list, Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner Dinah Jefferies, The Tea Planter’s Wife Sharon Bolton, Daisy in Chains Thomas Mullen, Darktown Genevieve Cogman, The Masked City Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide
Archives for August 2016
People, Etc.
Simon & Schuster Children’s announced a number of promotions and recent hires across various imprints. Sarah McCabe has been promoted to assistant editor, Simon Pulse. Nina Simoneaux has joined Aladdin as junior designer. Previously she was a design assistant at Random House Children’s, working on the Knopf, Crown, Delacorte, and Wendy Lamb imprints. Regina Flath has joined Random House Children’s as senior designer. Previously she was a senior designer at Simon & Schuster Children’s. In addition, Jaclyn Whalen has joined as designer. Previously she was a design associate at Vintage/Anchor. Annie Stone has joined BookBub as an account manager, where […]
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Lisa Erickson returns to the Crown Publishing Group as associate director of marketing for Crown, Hogarth, Broadway, and Tim Duggan Books (she has been at Little, Brown); Alaina Waagner recently joined the group as marketing manager (moving over from Random House). Ursula Cary has left Rodale Books, where she was a senior editor, to work as a freelance editor and writer, specializing in practical and narrative nonfiction. The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation has enlisted Ann Patchett and James Patterson as their inaugural ambassadors, to help “increase awareness of its mission to directly support booksellers with confidential emergency financial assistance.” More Opening […]
Merchandise Sales Lift Indigo
Canadian “book, gift and specialty toy retailer” Indigo reported results for their fiscal first quarter, ending July 2. Sales rose 4.4 percent, or $8.2 million, to $193.1 million for the quarter, “driven mainly by the continued double digit growth of key general merchandise categories.” Book sales were up on a same-store basis, but flat overall because they operated one less superstore and three fewer small-format stores than a year ago. Online sales rose 3.8 percent, to $24.9 million. Their net loss was the same, at $9 million. Since a year ago, general merchandise has grown to 34.1 percent of sales (from 30.6 percent) as print has ebbed […]
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At Penguin Books, Victoria Savanh has been promoted to assistant editor. At BlueBottleBiz, Mike Conner has been promoted to chief evangelist, where he will spearhead the company’s member adoption while overseeing his pre-existing sales team. At Westwood Creative Artists, Stephanie Thompson has joined as office manager and literary assistant to Michael Levine. In addition, Jake Babad has left the agency to attend law school. Crystal McCoy has joined little bee books as senior publicist. She was senior account executive at B/HI. Opening sales Nielsen Bookscan announced that UK print sales for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in its first […]
Sales Rise at Quarto
The Quarto Group also reported results for the first half of 2016, with acquisitions helping to boost sales, at $73.3 million up from $67.7 million a year ago. The biggest, and most profitable, growth came from Quarto USA, where sales gained almost $4 million to $31.7 million for the period, with an adjusted operating profit of $2.5 million. The US group was helped by February’s acquisition of Harvard Common Press’s list (for a total of $1 million), and a strong list of adult coloring books. The company does note that, “As anticipated, we are now starting to see signs of retail oversaturation with this […]