The AAP released their StatShot figures for November 2017 — another month in which revisions to the final comparison data from November 2016 makes any declaration of year-over-year changes pointless. That’s because a year ago, the AAP told us November 2016 net trade sales were $732.1 million ($512.5 million adult; $219.6 million children’s/YA). But now they say sales that month were actually $769.8 million, more than 5 percent higher ($522.3 million adult; $247.5 million children’s/YA). Now, for November 2017, we are told net trade sales were $737.8 million. That’s a little up from what we thought November sales were a […]
Archives for April 2018
Awards, and More
Awards Joan Silber won the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Improvement (which won the NBCC Award last month.) She will receive the $15,000 award at a ceremony on May 5 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. John F. Cogan will receive the Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Book Prize for The High Cost of Good Intentions. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, honoring books that address racism and diversity, are going to Jesmyn Ward, Kevin Young, N. Scott Momaday and Shane McCrae. The newest book promotion from Bill Gates is for his late friend Hans Rosling‘s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the […]
April iBooks Picks
The iBooks favorites for April include Barbara Lipska’s The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer and available to download now. The rest of the list features: The Female Persuasion, by Meg Wolitzer A Nantucket Wedding, by Nancy Thayer Greeks Bearing Gifts, by Philip Kerr The Recovering, by Leslie Jamison The Fallen, by David Baldacci Circe, by Madeline Miller The Overstory, by Richard Powers School for Psychics, by K.C. Archer Savor You, by Kristin Proby The Opposite of Hate, by Sally Kohn And Now We Have Everything, by Meaghan O’Connell Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Rebound, by Kwame Alexander How to Write and Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee […]
People: Bell to Gallery As Editorial Director
Aimee Bell will join the Gallery Books Group as vice president, editorial director, starting April 17, reporting to senior vice president and publisher Jennifer Bergstrom. Bell was the longtime deputy editor at Vanity Fair, until mid-February. Bergstrom said in the announcement: “She is an editor who has worked with some of the most ambitious, influential, and commercial authors – from Nora Ephron, Dave Eggers, and A.M. Homes to Sloane Crosley, Pippa Middleton, and Bono. Her sharp editorial instincts, creative thinking, and keen sense of what’s current in the zeitgeist make her the perfect person to lead the editorial direction of […]
More PM News
As we previewed the other day, you’ll see that we have revamped the new Deals pages at PublishersMarketplace.com, now sporting our cleaner, mobile-friendly layout and simplified navigational menus. The deal-related pages join everything jobs, all of the Lunch news, the rights board, and classifieds in our ongoing updating process to make as much of the site as possible adaptive to all screen sizes. Our mobile news app [m.publishersmarketplace.com], introduced last year, is still the best way to follow our most frequently updated items on your cellphone. Last week we announced our newly updated deal report form, which adds a variety […]
May Buzz Books Monthly
Our monthly sampler program continues with May Buzz Books Monthly, available now for download on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. As always, the collection includes exclusive, pre-publication excerpts from titles publishing in May. A new bonus is full color cover images for selected titles in the month’s preview section, in addition to the excerpts. The latest installment features seven upcoming titles, including four novels, a debut, and one each nonfiction and young adult. Fiction excerpts include bestselling nonfiction author Sheila Heti’s novel Motherhood; Stephen McCauley’s My Ex-Life; internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman’s Tin Man; and Araminta Hall’s Our Kind of Cruelty. Aimee Molloy’s debut, The Perfect Mother, rounds […]