The iBookstore best books of September list overlaps with the field in highlighting novels from Jonathan Safran Foer and Ann Patchett, while also adding The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies, and Dear Mr. M by Herman Koch. Their nonfiction picks start with Bruce Springsteen’s book and include: Shirley Jackson, by Ruth Franklin The Pigeon Tunnel, by John le Carre Blood at the Root, by Patrick Phillips The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben And in YA they select: Kids of Appetite, David Arnold The Fever Code, James Dashner Ghosts, Raina Telgemeier A Shadow Bright […]
Archives for September 2016
Bookselling: BN Small-Format Concept Store in Plano, TX; New Stores Coming to Belmont, MA & Bend, OR; And More
Bcrnes & Noble announced plans to open a new concept store in Plano, TX’s Legacy West development, the Dallas Morning News reports (based on the developer’s press release). Notably the store, set to open in March and including a restaurant and bar like BN’s other new concept stores, will be measure just 9,000 square feet in size. BN vp, development David Deason explained in a statement: “We are excited to be opening a smaller format store, as part of a number of different concept stores that we’re testing nationwide.” Belmont, MA will see a new independent bookstore, Belmont Books, open next March as well, […]
Counterpoint Sold to Catapult
Recent start-up Catapult announced an agreement to acquire and merge with Counterpoint Press, which comprises the Counterpoint and Soft Skull imprints. Jack Shoemaker and Dan Smetanka will continue to run editorial for the acquired lines and Megan Fishmann will remain in place as director of marketing and publicity, with Catapult’s publisher Andy Hunter taking over as Counterpoint’s publisher. The sale caps the long career of Counterpoint ceo Charlie Winton, who will retire from daily operations while serving as an editor at large. Soft Skull Press will return to New York, led editorially by Yuka Igarashi. Susan Reich and David Lamb of Book Advisors represented Counterpoint in the deal. […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Allison Adler has joined Andrews McMeel as editor. Previously she had been an editor at Henry Holt, and has been working as a freelance editor. Mike Levine has left Northwestern University Press, where he was an acquisitions editor since 2007, to work as an independent provider of editorial services. At House of Anansi Press in Canada, Douglas Richmond joins the company as editor, focusing on acquiring for Spiderline (crime/mystery/thriller imprint) and Ambrosia (their new lifestyle imprint). He was associate editor at Harper Canada, where he was Associate Editor. Cindy Ma has been promoted to senior publicist, as Lindsay Holung joins the company as publicist (she was […]
September Picks
Amazon makes Affinity Konar’s Mischling their spotlight pick for September (with a rare typo in the promotional banner) and Nathan Hill’s The Nix is their featured debut (even though it published Tuesday, in August). Both titles are excerpted in our free Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter, as are additional Amazon picks When in French by Lauren Collins and A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. The rest of the list includes: A Torch Against the Night, Sabaa Tahir Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen Hero of the Empire, Candice Millard Here I Am, Jonathan Safran Foer Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon, Kelley French Now: The Physics of Time, Richard A. Muller Barnes & […]