• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register
Publishers Lunch logo Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
Login Sign Up
  • Personnel
  • AI
  • Compensation
  • Unions
  • Book Bans
  • New Releases
  • Earnings
  • The Trial
  • Archives
Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

June 13, 2018By Michael Cader

Briefs

June 13, 2018By Michael Cader

Laura Brown has joined Park Row Books as editor, moving over from the Harper imprint.

Opening Sales
THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING by Bill Clinton and James Patterson sold approximately 152,000 hardcovers in the first week on sale, as tracked by Bookscan through the outlets they monitor. The co-publishers trumpet it as the best first week sale for a work of adult hardcover fiction since two years ago.

Hachette Book Group ceo Michael Pietsch says in the release, “By any  measure, this was a terrific opening week of sales, one that exceeded even our own optimistic projections.” Knopf Doubleday chairman Sonny Mehta adds, “We are heartened by the response to the work, especially among readers.”

That first week hardcover sale is a little below Hillary Clinton’s opening week for WHAT HAPPENED last September (168,000), and it looks like the fourth or fifth biggest hardcover opening this year. James Comey’s A HIGHER LOYALTY is on top (360,000 copies), with Michael Wolff’s FIRE AND FURY selling 220,000 copies over the first 10 days after being moved up, and Joanna Gaines’ MAGNOLIA TABLE started with over 171,000 copies. (A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO took in big orders in the first 24 hours but the stock didn’t catch up to complete the sales for a while.)

Awards
Ireland’s Mike McCormack won the International Dublin literary award for Solar Bones. The novel is “written in a single sentence that flows over 270-odd pages, and spans a single day.” The judges called it “formally ambitious, stylistically dauntless and linguistically spirited.”

Filed Under: Awards, Free, Opening Sales

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login

Forgot Password Quick Pass User Login
Get Full Access
The Publishing Industry’s Essential Daily Read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Spotify Adds Plans for Individuals and Family Groups to Add On Another 15 Hours of Paid Audiobook Listening July 17, 2025 Press release
  • New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte Vetoes School Book Banning Bill July 16, 2025 NHPR
  • The WSJ on Scholastic's Turnaround Efforts July 15, 2025 WSJ
  • Fourth Wing Coloring Book and Calendar to be Published by Andrews McMeel July 15, 2025 Press release
  • Nielsen Successor (And Owner of Nielsen Bookscan) NIQ Files for IPO, Raising Over $1 Billion on a $7.25 Billion Value July 14, 2025 Reuters
  • Sally Kim Discusses Working at Each of the Big 5 July 10, 2025 Open Book Podcast
  • Authors Write An Open Letter to Publishers Against AI July 1, 2025 Lit Hub
  • Pearson and Google Partner on AI Tools June 27, 2025 Press Release
  • Author of "Life as We Knew It," Among 76 Books of "Complex Stories for Young Adults" Susan Beth Pfeffer Dies at 77 June 26, 2025 NYT
  • Why Man Not Read Fiction We Think Should? IDK -- Let's Ask A Tourist Bookstore June 26, 2025 NYT
Publishers Marketplace logo

Contact Us

News

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Report News
  • Discuss
  • Classifieds
  • Rights Offerings

Deals

  • Report A Deal

Books

  • Buzz Books

Jobs

  • Job Board
  • Privacy Policy Terms of Use