Charlie Schroder joins Scribd as head of domestic content acquisition and new verticals. She was previously vp/marketing, licensing & development of global at children’s publisher Candlewick Press. Liz Edelstein joins as director of original content strategy and operations. Previously, she created and ran romance fiction website Heroes & Heartbreakers at Macmillan. Former creative director at Abrams Children’s Chad W. Beckerman has joined The CAT Agency as an agent. Priya Nelson will join Princeton University Press as senior editor, history on June 22. She is currently editor, anthropology & history at the University of Chicago Press. At University of California Press, […]
Archives for June 2020
New Books Publishing June 2
It’s another big launch week for new titles. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 23 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-2 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Fiction_Publishing_June_2/216959 10 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-2 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_June_2/216960 6 new children’s/YA books https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-june https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_in_June/216958 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to […]
AAP Hails 50th Anniversary, Remembers Reidy, Reaffirms Broad Support for Internet Archive Lawsuit
Hours after a lawsuit coordinated among four large AAP members was filed to block the Internet Archive’s broad scanning and online sharing of copyrighted books, the organization convened a virtual version of their annual meeting and marked the group’s 50th anniversary. Current AAP chair (and Macmillan ceo) John Sargent remarked, “It is remarkable how much we work together and how how very close we are in our view of the right way forward across this organization.” More broadly, on the AAP’s big anniversary, he noted, “It’s fair to say that without the AAP the United States copyright law would not […]
June Picks
Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for June is Brit Bennett‘s The Vanishing Half and the featured debut is Megha Majumdar‘s A Burning. You can sample the Bennett now in our Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Devolution, by Max Brooks Fair Warning, by Michael Connelly 28 Summers, by Elin Hilderbrand Rebel Chef, by Dominique Crenn Feasting Wild, by Gina Rae La Cerva The Lightness, by Emily Temple Everyone Know How Much I Love You, by Kyle McCarthy The House on Fripp Island, by Rebecca Kaufman Barnes & Noble‘s books of the month are: Fiction: Circe, by Madeline Miller […]
People, Etc.: S&S and Macmillan Will Also Skip the Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair Simon & Schuster joined HarperCollins and others in announcing that it, too, will not attend the Frankfurt Book Fair this year: “After careful consideration, and with the health and safety of our employees and industry colleagues foremost in mind, Simon & Schuster has decided that it will not attend the Frankfurt Book Fair this year. We applaud the FBF’s efforts to develop digital programs, and while we will not have a physical presence, our publishers, rights and sales groups are very much looking forward to using other means to meet with their with their contacts in the […]
Four AAP Publishers Sue the Internet Archive to Block “Mass Copyright Infringement”
When the Internet Archive granted to itself in late March emergency powers to make a collection of 1.3 million self-scanned ebooks available for unlimited downloading around the world during the pandemic, it dared — or invited — publishers and authors to sue. This morning, AAP member publishers Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and Wiley have indeed sued the Internet Archive for “willful mass copyright infringement” in the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York. As the AAP says in a press release announcing the suit, “The sheer scale of IA’s infringement described in the complaint — […]