The rest of the world was open for business all week long and accounts for much of the catch-up news: – Kobo has now redirected their efforts to sell ebooks and ereading devices in Spain towards their France-based retail partner Fnac. The relationship has been expanded to Spain, where Fnac has 50 stores. Kobo first opened their own local ebookstore in 2011 and sells titles in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, and Galician. In 2013 they had partnered with La Central’s group of seven stores. – Germany’s Luebbe has sold 80 percent of their gift product line Rader for 14.1 million euros, valuing the company at about one […]
Archives for November 2016
Best and Notable Books
In advance of picking their top 10, the New York Times Book Review editors listed their 100 notable books of 2016. Joining the notables are a number of other lists, including top 10s from Newsday and Glamour magazine, five top novels from Kevin Nguyen for GQ, and the Telegraph‘s top 50 books of the year in the UK.
People
John Murray managing director Roland Philipps will leave his position at the end of the year, after 22 years at Hodder & Stoughton. Murray will work as consultant, and focus on his own writing. In Germany, Nora Mercurio will be promoted to director of rights and foreign rights department at Suhrkamp and Insel, where she has worked since 2006. Current director Dr. Petra Hardt wanted to transfer leadership of the department, the company reports, but will remain part of the unit.
Thanks
As we prepare to mark a big anniversary here at PM (more on that soon) and look forward to opportunity to gather with family and friends and focus on reasons to be thankful, we are particularly grateful for this community that sustains and supports us. The opportunity to engage with and help to animate so many hard-working peers and colleagues every day is a rare gift indeed. As a very modest offering, for anyone who wants to try out the full resources of and full membership in our PM world, the promotional code 1515 will provide the first month of service […]
Awards: FT Winner and Costa Nominees
Sebastian Mallaby‘s biography of former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan,The Man Who Knew, won the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Shortlists were announced for the UK’s Costa Awards in four categories. The nominees include: Novel Days Without End, by Sebastian Barry (Viking/Faber & Faber) This Must Be the Place, by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf/Tinder Press) The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry (Custom House/Serpent’s Tail) The Gustav Sonata, by Rose Tremain (Norton/Chatto & Windus) First Novel The Good Guy, by Susan Beale (John Murray) My Name is Leon, by Kit de Waal (S&S/Viking UK) The Words in My […]
People
Gail Brussel has joined Penguin Press as publicity manager. Most recently ran her own PR company, Gail Brussel Book Publicity. In addition, Juliana Kiyan has been promoted to assistant publicity director. As we reported last month, Kate Childs left her position as director of Special events and event partnerships at Random House to join CAA. The agency has now officially explained that Childs takes the “newly-created position within the books department to create unique live events for client book releases. She will “work in collaboration with publishing houses to develop strategic programming in support of a book launch that expands upon a […]