Because of the holiday Bookscan will not release their US sales statistics for the final week of 2017 until Thursday, but in the UK the final report shows a mixed view of a basically flat year. While the headline says the print market grew, the measure of book consumption says the opposite: Print book sales were 189.8 million units, down 2.6 percent from 195 million units in 2016. (And ebook sales were likely down as well.) What grew is the measure of the bookselling economy — sales generated at retail (which Bookscan captures in the UK, but not in the US). […]
Archives for January 2018
Advance Word: Fire and Fury, and Brotopia
The Guardian acquired a copy of Michael Wolff‘s embargoed FIRE AND FURY: Inside the Trump White House from a New England bookseller in advance of the January 9 publication date. Their report will garner attention, at the same time that it will leave some wondering how deep the book’s revelations go, given the few quotes highlighted in the article. (They do say “Wolff lifts the lid on a White House lurching from crisis to crisis amid internecine warfare, with even some of Trump’s closest allies expressing contempt for him.”) Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who appears to have been […]
People, Etc.
Natalie Grazian has joined Martin Literary & Media Management as associate literary manager. Previously she was a sales representative for Norton. At Putnam, Carolyn Darr and Madeline Schmitz have each been promoted to associate publicist. The LA Times names Kima Jones as a 2018 “literary breakthrough.” She is the founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, an LA-based book publicity firm that focuses on representing women of color. “With her discerning eye for literature, keen awareness of what makes a successful book in the digital age and drive to empower writers who have been marginalized in publishing, Jones is an important new […]
February Buzz Books Monthly
Our newest edition of Buzz Books Monthly highlights some of winter’s biggest titles. Available now for download on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley, the sampler includes exclusive, pre-publication excerpts of four titles due out in February, and also featured in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter collection. Buzz Books Monthlies are your first and best place to turn for a real insider’s taste of what to read next. As always, you can check out our extensive preview of new books of interest coming to market in February. February’s sampler features a mix of genres, beginning with Bryan Mealer’s nonfiction offering, The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family’s Search for the American Dream. […]
January Barnes & Noble Picks
Barnes & Noble‘s top fiction list for January joins everyone else in recommended The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (also excerpted and available to sample now in Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter). The rest of their picks: Unbound, by Stuart Woods The Wife Between Us, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Munich, by Robert Harris Fall From Grace, by Danielle Steel Blood Fury, by J.R. Ward Iron Gold, by Pierce Brown Still Me, by Jojo Moyes Fools and Mortals, by Bernard Cornwell The Girls in the Picture, by Melanie Benjamin Blood Sisters, Jane Corry The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, by Denis Johnson Eternal Life, by Dara Horn It Occurs To Me That I Am America, edited by Jonathan Santlofer
People, Etc.
Sue Grafton, 77, author of the Kinsey Millhone series, died of cancer at her home in Santa Barbara on December 28. The alphabetical series began with A is for Alibi in 1982 and continued through her last book, Y Is for Yesterday, published in August 2016. She had not yet begun writing the final book of the series, which was to be titled Z Is for Zero and published August 2019. Her daughter Jamie Clark wrote in a message on Grafton’s Facebook page, “She was adamant that her books would never be turned into movies or TV shows, and in that same vein, she would […]