With Amazon set to open their fourth and fifth bookstores in Chicago and Dedham, MA shortly, the company now says they expect to open a store in New York’s Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle this spring. The WSJ reports that the company confirmed plans for 4,000-square-foot store in the building’s retail mall. Last July, the NY Post had reported that Amazon was preparing to lease in the Hudson Yards development on the West Side, but that space would not open until late 2018 or early 2019. They also have been hiring for second Boston-area books store, north of the […]
Archives for January 2017
More January Picks
Adding to the monthly recommendations, iBooks has listed their top 5 books across four categories — adding to the consensus on Shanthi Sekaran’s novel, which you can sample now in our January Buzz Books alongside Stephanie Garber’s Caraval — including: Fiction Lucky Boy, Shanthi Sekaran Transit, Rachel Cusk 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden Little Deaths, Emma Flint Nonfiction Reality Is Not What It Seems, Carlo Rovelli The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston The Telomere Effect, Elizabeth Blackburn & Elissa Epel The New Odyssey, Patrick Kingsley A Really Good Day, Ayelet […]
People
Mary Pachnos, who has worked in association with Aitken Alexander Associates for the last 20 years, retired at the end of 2016. Her next phase will include volunteering as a guide at London Zoo. Marilyn Dahl has retired as editor of Shelf Awareness for Readers after twelve years with the publication. Dahl is succeeded by Stefanie Hargreaves as editor, effective Tuesday. Greaves has worked as an editor, bookseller, and reviewer for Ballantine, Girl Friday Productions, HarperCollins, Amazon.com and Book Page. Robbin Brosterman is joining Bright USA on January 9 as an agent in in the company’s New York office. Most recently […]
Hachette Book Group’s New Year’s Letter
HBG USA ceo Michael Pietsch wrote to staff with new year’s greetings instead of a holiday year-end letter, noting highlights of 2016–led by the acquisition of the Perseus Books imprints, which bolstered their “primary strategic goal” of growing the company. Without the Perseus titles, core HBG sales “decreased somewhat from 2015, primarily from declines in ebook and paperback sales and the transition of Yen Press to a joint venture.” But Pietsch says that core profits grew “by around 25 percent,” due in part to “care with costs,” with Perseus adding to both sales and profits. Looking ahead, he promises “we will soon […]
HarperCollins Buys Out Ediouro In Brazil; Firebrand Launches Eloquence on Alert
HarperCollins has bought out Ediouro, its partner in HarperCollins Brasil, to take sole ownership of the venture. Harper Brasil is also moving its headquarters to Rua da Quitanda in Rio de Janeiro’s financial center. CEO Brian Murray said in the announcement: “While we have enjoyed a successful relationship with Ediouro, we are very pleased to take full ownership of HarperCollins Brasil. We see Brazil as an area of growth both for titles from our global imprints being published into the region, as well as for local authors. We are excited about this new structure and the new home for the organization.” […]
January Bookseller Picks
Amazon made Douglas Preston’s new book their spotlight pick for January, with the Indie Next No. 1 debut novel from Emily Fridlund as their featured debut. (Our new spinoff free sampler January Buzz Books features read-it-now excerpts from Fridlund and another Amazon pick from Shanthi Sekaran’s Lucky Boy, plus three others and our big preview of forthcoming January books. Get it at Amazon, iBooks and Google Play, or from NetGalley). Amazon’s full monthly picks: The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden The Dry, Jane Harper Lillian Boxfish Takes a […]