The AAP released their StatShot publisher-reported sales data for December and the full year 2018, a substantial improvement on their traditional timing. What the data tells us is harder to declare, for reasons we will detail below, but here are a few key takeaways. For now, adult trade sales are reported at $5.131 billion for the year, and children’s and YA sales are listed as $2.112 billion, for a total of $7.243 billion. Sales look to be up over previous years, primarily with a gain in adult sales. (Final AAP sales were $6.926 billion in 2017 — lower than originally […]
Archives for February 2019
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Simon Trewin has left William Morris Endeavor after 6 years to start his own agency, Simone Trewin Ltd., representing authors, brands and entrepreneurs in the areas of art, culture, digital, literature, and live events. Trewin says in part, “This is a chance to return to my roots in the entertainment industry and I am looking forward to making live events, theatre and film production part of the mix of my new endeavor. I have authors who I would go to the wall for and they will always be my first priority but I can’t wait to get to work on seeing […]
Author Cliff Sims Sues Trump For Trying to Block His Book, Aims to Protect Federal Employees’ Free Speech
Cliff Sims, former White House aide and author of the recently-published book Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House, filed suit against President Trump and the United States government on Monday in a District of Columbia Federal court. The action alleges that President Trump “seek[s] to unlawfully penalize and impose a prior restraint upon Mr. Sims with respect to the publication and discussion of his book…and any information he learned as a result of serving as a federal employee.” The filing says the suit is designed “to protect the unequivocal and distinct constitutional rights of […]
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Anna Belle Hindenlang has joined Celadon Books as publicist. She was previously publicity assistant at Random House. At Random House Children’s, Monique Razzouk has been promoted to junior designer and Katrina Damkoehler to assistant art director. Kerstin Wolf has joined D4EO Literary Agency as literary agent. She was an agent in training at the Booker Albert Literary Agency. Founder of UK car manual publisher Haynes Publishing Group, John Haynes, 80, died on February 8 following a short illness. Bookselling Further to an early January report that McNally Jackson would remain in their Soho space after all, owner Sarah McNally confirms signing a lease renewal for […]
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Carly Watters has been promoted to senior vice president and senior literary agent at P.S. Literary Agency. Fiammetta Giorgi has been appointed as head of rights for Mondadori in Italy. Claudia Scheu, who previously held the position, will act as a consultant for the publisher. Alexander Roesler has been promoted to editorial director at S. Fischer Verlag in Germany, starting on March 1. Christopher Paul Carey has joined Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. as director of publishing. He was senior editor at Paizo, a publisher of roleplaying games. Cat Zappa has joined Dreamscape Media as executive director of content and strategy. She was […]
Abramson Will Add Quotations to Some Passages and Fix Notes
Jill Abramson told the AP that she found some errors in her book MERCHANTS OF TRUTH that she intends to correct: “The notes don’t match up with the right pages in a few cases, and this was unintentional and will be promptly corrected. The language is too close in some cases and should have been cited as quotations in the text. This, too, will be fixed.” Additionally, Abramson wrote: “I wouldn’t want even a misplaced comma so I will promptly fix these footnotes and quotations as I have corrected other material that Vice contested.” She noted, “The book is over […]