Apple reported their fiscal second quarter on Tuesday afternoon, with sales of $ 52.9 billion and net income of $11.03 billion, both up modestly from the same quarter a year ago. The “services” category, which includes their digital media sales, had sales of $7.04 billion, up 18% from 5.99 billion a year ago — confirming our conclusion that Apple would pull clearly ahead of Amazon this year in media/services sales. (As noted last week, as of 2017 Amazon no longer breaks out “media” sales, so it’s less obvious that they have fallen behind here. For scale, note as well that Netflix took […]
Archives for May 2017
Our Big June Monthly
With multiple titles from our Buzz Books spring/summer collection making the various “best books of May” lists, we continue this year’s successful new monthly sampler program with the release of June Buzz Books Monthly, available for download on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. Offering just the right amount of excerpts for consumers, and including a comprehensive preview that highlights hundreds of notable forthcoming titles for the month (listed by subject category and then again week by week), the June monthly features fiction excerpts from: The Marsh King’s Daughter, by Karen Dionne Come Sundown, by Nora Roberts The Force, by Don Winslow The Answers, by Catherine Lacey […]
Congressional Budget Deal Is Only A Temporary Win for the Arts
As Congressional leaders are reported to have agreed on a funding bill that will keep the government operating through the end of September, some reports are prematurely celebrating it as a victory over the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate resources for the NEA, NEH, libraries and more. The comprise bill — which allocates $150 million for the NEA and another $150 million for the NEH, along with $231 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services — funds those organizations through fiscal 2017. The aggressive effort to eliminate funding for the arts was, and remains, part of President Trump’s proposals […]
People, Etc.
David Pomerico has been promoted to editorial director for Harper’s Voyager imprint. Alexis Gargagliano has left her position as executive editor at Regan Arts to work independently — “ghostwriting, book doctoring, developing editorial strategy for websites, and helping organizations tell their stories through compelling narratives.” At Clarkson Potter, Jennifer Sit will join as senior editor, effective May 8. Previously, she was the cookbook editor at Blue Apron. Sara Neville has joined as associate editor; she was the book and stationery buyer at Urban Outfitters. Jenni Zellner has moved from Crown Archetype to Clarkson Potter as associate editor. Sonia Sanchez has joined Open Road […]
More May Picks: Library Reads, iBooks
Gail Honeyman’s novel Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine tops the May Library Reads list. The list features a number of titles excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer, including The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore; Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane (also included in our May Buzz Books Monthly); and Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. The rest of the list: The Leavers, by Lisa Ko Saints for All Occasions, but J. Courtney Sullivan White Hot, by Ilona Andrews Sycamore, by Bryn Chancellor Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil de Grasse Tyson The Jane Austen Project, by Kathleen A. […]
Briefs: Prizes for Johnson and Shepard, Tor Labs, Opening Magic, and More
The inaugural winner of the $50,000 Simpson Family Literary Prize — honoring “a writer who has earned a distinguished reputation and the approbation and gratitude of readers” — is T. Geronimo Johnson, “at the relatively middle stage of a burgeoning career.” Author most recently of The World to Come: Stories Jim Shepard won the 2016 Rea Award for the Short Story, cited for his “prodigious research” into history and science and “X-ray vision of the soul.” The National Book Foundation gave their Innovations In Reading prize to Barbershop Books, a community-based literacy program that creates child-friendly reading spaces in barbershops, founded in 2013 by Alvin […]