AAP released its July StatShot report, showing reasonable activity for children’s books in particular. As has been the case for much of this year, the final adult trade comparison data from 2018 was revised, so comparisons are difficult. Trade sales were $543.7 million, up from a revised $506.5 million last year (first reported as $528 million), and ahead of the four-year average of $529.5 million. Adult trade sales for July 2019 were $384 million — which is better than the final count of $369.6 million for July 2018, but behind the originally-reported $389.2 million. Children’s trade sales were up by […]
Archives for October 2019
People, Etc.
Don Jacobson will join Harper Christian and Harper Collins Focus on October 7 as svp and group publisher, reporting to Mark Schoenwald, president and CEO, Harper Christian. Previously, Jacobson bought Multnomah Press, before selling it to Penguin Random House, and founded literary management agency D.C. Jacobson and Associates. Karyn Marcus has been promoted to executive editor at the Gallery Books Group. Haley Swanson has been promoted to associate editor at Harper Wave. Angeline Rodriguez will join Orbit as associate editor. She was most recently with Ballantine. Alicia Tan has joined Harper as assistant editor. She was previously editorial assistant at Abrams. […]
October Picks
Jenna Bush Hager chose Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House as the October pick for the Today Show Book Club. Amazon‘s spotlight pick for the month is Adrienne Brodeur’s The Wild Game. Its featured debut, Megan Phelps-Roper’s Unfollow, as well as another pick, Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School, are excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter. The rest of the picks: Ninth House, by Leigh Bardugo Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was A Girl, by Jeannie Vanasco Grand Union, by Zadie Smith All This Could Be Yours, by Jamie Attenberg Olive Again, by Elizabeth Strout I […]