Ruth Ware’s novel The Lying Game tops July’s Library Reads list. Also on the list is Final Girls, by Riley Sager, excerpted in our July Buzz Books Monthly, available for download on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. The rest of the list features: Watch Me Disappear, by Janelle Brown The Marriage Pact, by Michelle Richmond Down A Dark Road, by Linda Castillo When The English Fall, by David Williams The Almost Sisters, by Joshilyn Jackson The Wildling Sisters, by Eve Chase Wired, by Julie Garwood Hello, Sunshine!, by Laura Dave
Archives for June 2017
Nearly Flat for the Year, Wiley’s Earnings Nudge Up As Book Sales Keep Falling
Wiley reported fiscal 2017 fourth quarter earnings for the year ending April 30 on Tuesday morning, with sales of $452 million (up $18 million from a year ago) and adjusted operating income of $61.7 million (up from $51.1 million a year ago), with earnings ahead of analysts’ expectations. For the full year, sales of $1.718.5 billion were down slightly, by $8.5 million, with adjusted operating income of $228 million, versus $217 million a year ago. Interim ceo Matthew Kissner says in the release, “We posted stronger revenue and earnings growth this quarter, largely due to growth in our Solutions business and […]
A Better Guess for This Month’s Oprah Pick?
Further to last week’s quick report on the new Oprah’s Book Club pick due at the end of June, the findable metadata on the ISBN looks to be gibberish, so we don’t have a lot of faith in the various listings that indicate a book for young readers or any particular author (since, for example, this BN.com listing connects it to a book by Mother Theresa and Father Brian Kolodiejchuk). A bookselling friend indicates that one leading guess is Imbolo Mbue‘s debut novel BEHOLD THE DREAMERS, awarded the PEN/Faulkner Prize in April. Earlier this spring Random House was listing the trade paperback […]
People, Etc.
Melissa Danaczko has joined the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency as an agent. Danaczko will represent literary and commercial fiction, as well as select non-fiction. She was most recently senior editor at Doubleday. Dana Murphy has been promoted to agent for The Book Group. Katharine McAnarney has joined Little, Brown Children’s as senior publicist. Most recently, she was publicist for Penguin Children’s. Sara Wigal has joined JKS Communications as senior book publicist (previously, she was associate publicist for Open Book Publicity). Ellen Whitfield has joined as book publicist (previously, she coordinated books coverage for the Waco Tribune Herald and other papers). Peter Mauceri, […]
People, Etc.
Sarah Haugen has joined Harper Wave as assistant editor. Previously, she was with Little, Brown. People from across the trade have offered remembrances of and testimonials to the late Ed Victor. Distribution Penguin Random House Publisher Services announced a multi-year North American book sales and distribution agreement with art and craft publisher Search Press, starting January 1, 2018. Bookselling New York City children’s bookstore Books of Wonder on 18th Street will open a second location on West 84th Street this summer. The lease on the downtown store expires in 2019, and owner Peter Glassman explained, “Given the rise in retail rents along 18th […]
Real eBook Sales Data Available
Since 2010 PublishersMarketplace.com has provided a premium service to literary agents, scouts, authors and other qualified independent publishing professionals for accessing Bookscan‘s comprehensive database of actual, weekly print book sales data from around the country — built right in to the familiar, easy-to-use PM website and interface. Now we are pleased to add an upgrade option to the Bookscan PM service, adding real ebook sales data on a monthly basis from the PubTrack Digital Service, at a very reasonable additional fee — and once again, with the simple look-and-feel of PM. PubTrack Digital presents actual, complete US ebook unit sales, as […]