Most days we go from the daily news and deals cycle to looking ahead at what we can do next, but every once in a while we get a pause to look back and now suddenly the year is almost over. There is much to be grateful for, staring with your continued attention and support — and the generous enthusiasm from members that drives our continuing growth. Net PM memberships continue to grow at a lovely pace year over year, and given that we have never marketed ourselves, that all comes from our readers, members and community at large. For […]
Archives for November 2018
Best Of: NYT Notables, NYPL Picks
The New York Times Book Review posted its 100 notable books for 2018, and they will announce their 10 Best Books list on November 29. Separately, the New York Public Library introduced a new Best Books of 2018 package of their own, covering books for kids, teens and adults. (Selections include Patrick deWitt’s novel, also excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer collection and available for download.) Their adult list picks: If They Come for Us: Poems, by Fatimah Asghar French Exit, by Patrick deWitt Woman World, by Aminder Dhaliwal Barracoon, by Zora Neale Hurston Heart Berries, by Terese Marie Mailhot I’ll Be […]
Briefs: Awards, Bookselling, and More
National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow will be the speaker at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 27, 2019. He said in the release, “The White House Correspondents’ Association has asked me to make the case for the First Amendment and I am happy to oblige. Freedom of the press is always a timely subject and this seems like the perfect moment to go back to basics. My major worry these days is that we Americans will forget who we are as a people and historians should serve as our chief custodians in preserving that rich storehouse […]
Barnes & Noble Has Slimmer Loss, Smaller Sales Decline
If you are looking to reassure yourself as Barnes & Noble heads into the crucial holiday sales period, then here is what you will focus on in the company’s fiscal second quarter earnings report this morning. Same-store sales fell by only 1.4 percent, which the company calls a “significant improvement” and touts as their “best quarterly performance since the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016.” With a low bar set after some poor holidays — down 6.4 percent last Christmas, following a 9.1 percent same-store decline for Christmas 2016 — the company expects to see “continued sales improvement during the holiday […]
Your News Goes Here
We just made it easier than ever to send your news our way, with a Newsbox page at PublishersMarketplace. As always, info@publishersmarketplace.com is the best place to email your press releases and personnel announcements, and deals should be reported via our English-language and International rights forms, please. But now you can also enter your less formal bulletins right into the Newsbox — along with news tips, story ideas, and any confidential communications you do not want to transmit via email. (Plus you can upload documents, memos, and other files.) Bookmark it as your reference point for how to reach us […]
People, Etc.
At Princeton University Press, Bridget Flannery-McCoy has joined as senior editor for political science. She was previously economics and american history editor at Columbia University Press. Thalia Leaf has been promoted to assistant editor for history starting December 1. Forthcoming Macmillan has another Trump Administration related drop-in title set for publication on January 29: Former special assistant to the president and director of White House message strategy Cliff Sims’ TEAM OF VIPERS: My 500 Extraordinary Days In the Trump White House is called “the first honest insider’s account of the Trump Administration,” coming from Thomas Dunne Books. The publisher notes: “For five […]