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Archives for December 2016

Holiday Print Sales Finish Reasonably Well

December 29, 2016
By Michael Cader

A good final holiday week of print book sales as measured by Nielsen Bookscan lifted the cumulative total for the five-week period into positive territory (though all of this year’s comparison numbers come with asterisks since 2015 was an unusual 53-week year in Nielsen’s tracking). For the five weeks starting with Thanksgiving, print unit sales totaled 119.6 […]

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Briefs

December 29, 2016
By Sarah Weinman

The Costco Pennie’s Pick for January is Amy Stewart‘s Girl Waits With Gun (HMH) while the company’s book club pick for the month is The Tumbling Turner Sisters (Gallery) by Juliette Fay. Updating our very best of the best books of 2016 report, Jacqueline Woodson is represented now by Kathleen Nishimoto at William Morris Endeavor. Also, USA […]

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Employee Sues Google Over Confidentiality Policies (Including Approval For Writing Novels)

December 22, 2016
By Sarah Weinman

Earlier this week an anonymous Google employee sued over internal confidentiality policies that run the gamut from spying on employees to writing novels without the company’s approval, saying they breach California labor laws. The suit, first reported on by The Information, “alleges Google runs an internal ‘spying program’ which relies on employees voluntarily reporting other […]

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Still Going, Now with A Free Trial

December 22, 2016
By Michael Cader

Today is our last “scheduled” edition for this year (unless something else happens; “except when not” remains our watchword). We’ll be back as needed next week — at least once, at least for our Publishers Lunch Deluxe audience — with news briefs and more end of year thoughts and stats. And as always, PublishersMarketplace remains […]

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Pantsuit Nation Founder Clarifies Book Deal and Nonprofit Status After Criticism

December 22, 2016
By Sarah Weinman

Earlier this week the founder of the private Facebook group Pantsuit Nation faced criticism and controversy following the announcement of coffee-table book comprising member posts set to be published in May by Flatiron Books. Founded by Libby Chamberlain in October for Hillary Clinton supporters to express enthusiasm for their candidate, and then a place for […]

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The Very Best of the Best Books of 2016

December 22, 2016
By Michael Cader

A couple more notable “best of 2016” lists may still trickle in (USA Today tends to run at the very end of the year) but with a wealth of lists already out — we have counted 65 in all — it’s time for our final, comprehensive aggregation of the very best books of the year. (We […]

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