Meryl Wilsner’s Something to Talk About is the top pick for May’s Library Reads list. The rest of the picks: All Adults Here, by Emma Straub Beach Read, by Emily Henry Big Summer, by Jennifer Weiner A Good Marriage, by Kimberly McCreight Happy & You Know It, by Laura Hankin The Jane Austen Society, by Natalie Jenner Network Effect, by Martha Wells Recipe for Persuasion, by Sonali Dev The Wife Stalker, by Liv Constantine
Archives for April 2020
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Hannah Rahill has been promoted to senior vice president, backlist strategy and development at the Random House Group, reporting to Gina Centrello. She will collaborate with cross-functional teams including RH Digital, RH Analytics, Consumer Insights, and Sales Management, to collect and distill emerging trends and market data and identify opportunities. Dave Snow, vice president, human resources, at Simon & Schuster will lead S&S human resources and the Rockefeller Center facilities department, reporting to Carolyn Reidy. The human resources staffs in New York and Riverside, as well as the facilities staff in New York, will report to Snow, who will also […]
Reed Finally Admits There Will be No Book Expo or Book Con This Year
On Tuesday afternoon, Reed Exhibitions conceded what all of the industry’s largest companies had already made plain on their own: Book Expo and Book Con, which organizers had hoped to hold at rescheduled dates in late July, will not be held at all in 2020. “As the pandemic has continued to escalate in the United States and we see the challenges it has brought for the book industry, it is clear that 2020 is no longer a viable option for this community,” the company said. Their statement indicates that individual tickets purchased for 2020 will be refunded automatically, though it […]
Status: News Corp Warns On Virus Impact, Indigo Rehires Some Employees with Government Support
News Corp joined other public companies in issuing a formal notice to investors that the COVID-19 pandemic “is expected to adversely affect the Company’s business and results of operations,” detailing the negative impact across its businesses. At HarperCollins, “Sales are expected to be adversely affected by shipping restrictions and delays imposed by online retailers, as well as closures of brick-and-mortar retail stores.” Those declines are mitigated in part by “an increase in sales of digital formats of its titles.” The company advises that it is “implementing cost-savings initiatives company-wide,” without providing any further details on pay cuts, furloughs or other […]
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Holly Harris will join Simon & Schuster UK as publishing director, non-fiction, adult publishing division, starting July 6. She is currently editorial and media development director at Penguin Random House UK children’s division. Crooked Lane has a multi-year agreement with Dreamscape Media for production and distribution of audiobooks. Relief Poets & Writers has created a COVID-19 Relief Fund to “provide emergency assistance to writers having difficulty meeting their basic needs.” They will provide grants of up to $1,000 to approximately 80 writers in April. The board allocated $50,000, which has been supplemented by gifts from supporters including Michael Piestch […]
New Books Publishing April 14
Even with the many changes in spring pub dates that we continue to track and update at publun.ch/pubdatechanges, a healthy wave of new books comes to market today. As we have done the past couple of weeks, we are ready to call attention to a number of notable titles publishing today in need of attention and support. Our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of: 14 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-14 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Fiction_Publishing_April_14/177839 13 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-14 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_April_14/177840 More new children’s/YA books https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-april https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_April_7/177841