Alice Hoffman’s Faithful is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for November. The rest of the list features: The Next, by Stephanie Gangi Nicotine, by Nell Zink The Girl From Venice, by Martin Cruz Smith The German Girl, by Armando Lucas Correa Orphans of the Carnival, by Carol Birch Mister Monkey, by Francine Prose Night School, by Lee Child Cabo de Gata, by Eugen Ruge, Anthea Bell (Trans.) IQ, by Joe Ide The Terranauts, by T.C. Boyle Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History, by Sam Maggs, Sophia Foster-Dimino (Illus.) The Fall Guy, by James Lasdun Inheriting […]
Archives for October 2016
Hogarth Lines Up Sarah Jessica Parker Imprint
After playing the writer in “Sex and the City,” actor Sarah Jessica Parker is the latest celebrity to set up an imprint. She will be editorial director of SJP for Hogarth, where she “will help to find, edit and publish three or four new novels a year,” with the first list expected to publish in 2018. Parker was enlisted by Crown publisher Molly Stern. Parker tells the NYT she’s looking for “great stories” and “global voices” which they note “is another way of saying she can’t say too much.” SJP joins recently announced forthcoming lines from the likes of Andy Cohen, Lena […]
People, Etc.
Marketing technology start-up OptiQly, which is working on optimizing the display and sales of books, ebooks, and other products at online retailers, has acquired The Logical Marketing Agency, a boutique digital marketing consultancy. Logical co-founders Pete McCarthy and Jess Johns have joined OptiQly full-time, as chief product officer and director of marketing, respectively. The third co-founder, Mike Shatzkin, will remain involved through a long-term consulting agreement, and already sits on the OptiQly board. OptiQly ceo Evan Schnittman says in the announcement, “Since the three Logical Marketing partners are among the founders of OptiQly, this is a unifying step with the intention of providing more – and more […]
Amazon Adds “Prime Reading”
Amazon has launched a modest “Prime Reading” initiative that fits alongside the company’s far more expansive Prime Video and Prime Music in allowing their Prime subscription members to access a small catalog of ebooks and magazines to read for free. It offers “a rotating selection of books, magazines, comics and more,” comprising about 1,000 ebooks — many of them house-published. Unlike the awkwardly-named (and tricky to use) Kindle Owner’s Lending Library, Prime Reading allows users to “borrow” up to 10 titles at a time, and they can be read across the line of Kindle apps and are not restricted to Amazon […]
Source Says Amazon In Preliminary Settlement Talks In EU eBook Antitrust Case
With the European Commission looking to flex some regulatory muscle over American-based technology giants including Apple, Google and Amazon, at least one source reported to Reuters on Tuesday that “Amazon is in talks to settle the e-book case” under investigation by the EC “but it is too early to say whether it will reach an agreement.” At about the same time, Bloomberg ran a story citing “people familiar with the case” saying that Amazon is in settlement talks with European regulators. The European Commission brought “a formal antitrust investigation into certain business practices by Amazon in the distribution of electronic books” in June […]
New Ken Follett Book Coming In September 2017
While Ken Follett has previously indicated in vague fashion that his next book would be published in the fall of 2017, today Viking has told Publishers Lunch that the new epic, A COLUMN OF FIRE, will release in North America on September 12, 2017. The book is the third installment in the Kingsbridge series, following The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. A final page count and price are still to be determined, though Viking says the length “will be similar to World Without End, which was close to 1000 pages.” (World Without End was published in 2007 as $35 hardcover.) […]