To help you sift through the many thousands of planned spring and summer titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy young adult titles, divided into fiction and nonfiction. You can sample many of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2018: Young Adult Spring/Summer; they are noted with an asterisk. (Download your copy now from Kindle, Nook, iBooks, and Kobo. Or get the trade edition from NetGalley or Edelweiss.) Also please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change. The season ahead features an assortment of young adult […]
Archives for January 2018
People: Morrison Leaving HarperCollins, and More
HarperCollins general books group president & publisher Michael Morrison will leave the company at the end of January, as he “has decided not to renew his contract.” Morrison, who spent nearly 19 years at HarperCollins, said in the announcement: “After 35 years of going to a Manhattan skyscraper every day, I thought it was about time I experienced a different life.” As a result, Jonathan Burnham will be promoted to president and publisher for Harper, overseeing Harper, Harper Paperbacks, Harper Perennial, Harper Business, Harper Design, Harper Wave, Broadside Books, Amistad, and Ecco. Liate Stehlik moves up to president and publisher […]
Open Road Grows On New Business Lines, Reinvests to Grow More
Open Road celebrated a year in which refocusing on consumer marketing and continuing to build their customer base and service offerings has put the company in what they call “the most solid financial position of its history,” forecasting more “strong growth in the coming year.” In conjunction with that press release, ceo Paul Slavin and cfo Daniel Shemesh spoke with Publishers Lunch to share specific details about their performance for the first time. “It’s important we don’t get pegged as a publishing company, looking at unit sales,” Slavin said. “We’re about growing revenues by growing the number of consumers we […]
Buzz Books Spring/Summer Preview: Commercial Fiction
Our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler excerpts an array of great forthcoming commercial titles from authors including Araminta Hall, Kristan Higgins, Ann Mah, Beatriz Williams, and more. As usual, we begin our free ebook with an exhaustive overview of the upcoming publishing season featuring hundreds of notable titles on the way. Did you download your copy yet? Get the “trade edition” from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions from Kindle, Nook, iBooks (where they are being promoted on a number of high-profile pages), and Kobo, among other online retailers. With Winter Institute 13 set for next week in Memphis, we’ll be presenting extracts from that seasonal preview over the […]
Attorney Milo Doesn’t Get Far In First Hearing
Milo Yiannopoulos made his first appearance in court Thursday playing the role of his own attorney, with little success. So far, Judge Barry Ostrager is siding with defendant Simon & Schuster in allowing them to designate some of the materials in discovery as for “attorney’s eyes only” — and will not give Yiannopoulos access, regardless of his role. “Those documents frankly have nothing whatsoever to do with the substantive merits of your case,” Judge Ostrager said, noting they contain “proprietary financial information.” S&S used Milo’s own loose words in defending their need to keep certain documents away from him. He told […]
Waterstones Performs Only A Little Better, and Restates Debt Schedule
UK bookseller Waterstones reported results for the fiscal year ending back on April 29, 2017, which the UK media has reported with their customary excess of enthusiasm. What the numbers show is that sales were flat or somewhat down, at £404 million, compared to £409 million in fiscal 2016 (which was an unusual 53-week year). Actual profit after tax of £16 million was down £1.5 million (or 9 percent). But the headlines declare “Waterstones’ annual profits jump 80%.” That’s referring to profit before tax, which indeed was £18 million, up from £9.9 million a year ago. (Last year they captured […]