One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston is the top pick for June’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Marianne Cronin’s The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, and Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray’s The Personal Librarian, both available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer. The other picks: The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides Neon Gods, by Katee Robert The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris Our Woman in Moscow, by Beatriz Williams The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, by Car Sebastian To Sir, With Love, by Lauren Layne The Woman They Could Not […]
Archives for May 2021
ProQuest to be Sold to Clarivate for $5.3 Billion
Publicly-traded Clarivate (the awkward modern name for what was Thompson Reuters’ IP and science division, FKA as Thompson Scientific) has an agreement to acquire library content and services company ProQuest for $5.3 billion from Cambridge Information Group and its partners. Clarivate will pay with $4 billion in cash and $1.3 billion in equity. Chairman of ProQuest and CEO of Cambridge Information Group Andy Snyder, who will join the Clarivate board as vice chair after the deal closes, says in the announcement: “I have seen ProQuest evolve to meet our customers’ ever-changing needs over the last several decades and fully understand […]
Pence and Conway Are On, Cohen Book Is Off, and S&S Will Distribute Blake Bailey
The New Republic reports on last week’s town hall meeting at Simon & Schuster, at which the standoff continued between management and a good portion of the employees over the planned publication of books by former vice president Mike Pence and Kellyanne Conway. Based on a recording of the meeting, the article buries the lede: CEO Jonathan Karp reportedly told employees that Conway’s deal is “contingent on being truthful” (their line, not his). For Pence there is a softer standard: “His agent insisted there ‘would be nothing discriminatory’ in the book and that the vice president had promised to be […]
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction Part 1
Our season preview from our Buzz Books 2021 Fall/Winter sampler continues with nonfiction. Because of the number of titles, we have divided the preview in half, today featuring fall and winter books about politics and current events, social issues, and business, science and technology. This season’s nonfiction features vital social justice works by the history-making activists Anita Hill and Tarana Burke. The Coronavirus, Donald Trump, and racism are also covered in many new titles. Get the “trade edition” of Buzz Books 2021 Fall/Winter from Netgalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. Titles excerpted in Buzz Books are noted with […]
Wednesday at Noon: Editor Megan Lynch in the Discuss Forum
Join Megan Lynch online at Publishers Marketplace Wednesday, May 19 at noon Eastern, the latest guest on our forum Discuss, to ask questions about acquisitions and agents that face editors. The discussion will happen at this link. A reminder that these are straightforward typed message board conversations. No cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. Use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments, and Megan will post back. You can post questions ahead of time, too, if you wish.
People, Etc.
Kendra Harpster has joined Kevin Anderson & Associates as executive editor, where she will specialize in fiction and memoir titles. She was an executive editor at Penguin Random House. Dana Grimaldi has been promoted to editor at Harlequin, acquiring for Harlequin Heartwarming and the Worldwide Mystery and Suspense program. Carly Kellerman has been promoted to associate publisher at Zondervan. Longtime Amazon executive Jeff Blackburn will return to the company on June 7 the new position of svp of global media & entertainment. All of the company’s entertainment business — including Audible, along with Prime Video, Amazon Studios, Music, Podcasts/Wondery, Games, […]