At Random House, Michelle Jasmine has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, while Allyson Lord moves up to associate publicist. Tanusri Prasanna has joined Foundry Literary + Media, moving from Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, building her list in children’s books and selectively representing adult literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. Former Clarkson Potter executive editor Rica Allannic will join the David Black Agency in September as a literary agent. She will focus on cooking, narrative nonfiction, popular culture, history, memoir, and “helping authors from diverse backgrounds tell stories that are important to them.” Forthcoming Joe Hagan’s biography STICKY FINGERS: The Life and Times of […]
Archives for May 2017
Bookselling Notes and Beyond: Indies, Amazon and More
Owner of WORD bookstores Christine Onorati has an “open letter” of interest posted at Melville House’s website. She writes because, “I believe that we are at a crossroads in our industry, and, for the first time, I’m genuinely worried for our future. I think that we need to start brainstorming new business models and figuring out how to make the retail equation work in our favor so that we can stay afloat. Many of us will not make it; Amazon bookstores, online competition, skyrocketing rents, increased minimum wage, lack of young booksellers who choose this industry as a viable career — […]
The Full Buzz Books Young Adult Roster
Yesterday we listed the complete roster of 40 great adult authors and excerpts packed into our new free ebook Buzz Books 2017: Fall/Winter sampler, and today we’re proud to feature all of the young adult authors and excerpts in Buzz Books 2017 Young Adult: Fall/Winter. Since we first launched YA as its own Buzz Books collection at BEA four years ago, these editions have been particularly popular with consumers, and this edition is perfectly suited for sharing with passionate YA fans at BookCon. (Fan reviews of the YA edition are already pouring in online: “Whenever I see a new Buzz Books is available […]
People, Etc.
Ian Buruma has been named editor of The New York Review of Books, succeeding co-founder Robert B. Silvers who died recently. Buruma has been a regular contributor to The New York Review since 1985, in addition to other publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and La Repubblica. He is also the Paul W. Williams Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College. Publisher Rea Hederman said in the release, “Ian’s long relationship with both founding editors will preserve the editorial quality and independence for which the Review has been known since its first […]
The Complete Fall/Winter Buzz Books Titles
As we previewed on Tuesday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2017: Fall/Winter features an amazing roster of authors you love as well as excerpts from 16 exciting debut voices. Get a jump on Book Expo by sampling some of the best forthcoming books right now. For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, get an EPUB file from us or go to NetGalley. The consumer version is available on all the major ebookstore platforms (the “download” button here links to them all). And don’t forget to share. Our samplers are highly anticipated […]
Barnes & Noble’s Market Cap At New Low
Pushed by yesterday’s marketwide slump, Barnes & Noble’s stock is now trading at levels that the company it’s lowest market capitalization in at least a decade, if not longer. This morning shares opened at $7.30 and were down slightly again, for a market cap of about $510 million. The stock had dipped to about $8.25 a share in early 2016, and the last big dip was in March 2011, when the price dropped a little below $9 a share — but there were fewer common shares outstanding then, since Liberty Media still held separate preferred shares at time. [Update/correx: There were fewer common […]