Building on their initiative to provide a broader catalog of digital content to libraries, OverDrive announced that it is acquiring video streaming service Kanopy from private equity investor L Squared Capital Partners. The streamer provides 2,300 academic institutions and public libraries with a catalog of over 30,000 films. Kanopy is used by millions of students and library patrons and is available on all major web, mobile and TV platforms. OverDrive CEO Steve Potash says in the announcement, “The Kanopy apps and streaming viewing experience are excellent services to further benefit our network of public libraries and academic partners.” The release […]
Archives for June 2021
People, Etc.
At Avery and Tarcher Perigee, Nina Shield has been promoted to executive editor; Lauren Appleton to senior editor; and Hannah Steigmeyer to associate editor. Brady Emerson has joined Penguin Random House Audio as producer. Iris McElroy has joined as producer; she was most recently a producer at Harper Audio. Nithya Rajendran has joined as producer; Rajendran was previously with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Lauren Klein joins as associate producer. Denise Lee has been promoted to associate producer. At Macmillan, Mindy Rosenkrantz has joined as assistant contracts manager, and Michelle Suter as analyst, treasury and insurance. Catherine Bogin has been promoted to senior manager, global […]
Picks: Amazon’s Best Books of The Year So Far, And More
Amazon announced its top books of the year so far, astutely putting Maggie Shipstead’s novel in the top spot: 1. Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead 2. Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro 3. The Code Breaker, by Walter Isaacson 4. We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker 5. What’s Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster 6. The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah 7. Punch Me Up to the Gods, by Brian Broome 8. Gold Diggers, by Sanjena Sathian 9. The Plot, by Jean Hanff Korelitz 10. Chatter, by Ethan Kross 11. Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid 12. […]
People, Etc.
At Harper One, Anna Paustenbach and Sydney Rogers have each been promoted to senior editor. Kerry Finnamore has joined Sourcebooks in the new role of editorial manager, illustration and art services. Finnamore has previously been involved with acquisitions, illustrations, and art management for Publications International and Cottage Door Press. Chelsey Moler Ford has joined as production editor. Chelsea Hunter has joined Abrams Children as senior designer. Previously, she was designer at Holiday House. Mackenzie Hickey has joined Gallery Books Group as senior marketing manager, returning to the publisher after leaving publishing to work for a Colorado clean energy company. Kayleigh […]
(Limited) Distribution
Dave Eggers’ THE EVERY, a follow-up to THE CIRCLE, will publish on October 5 in a limited-distribution hardcover that will be sold exclusively through independent bookstores and McSweeney’s website. Eggers said in an email, “I don’t like bullies. Amazon has been kicking sand in the face of independent bookstores for decades now.” Vintage will publish trade paperback and ebook editions on November 16, available through all retailers. The strategy means that links to pre-order the trade paperback and ebook are available widely already — but since the limited-distribution hardcover isn’t available through an ONIX feed, independent bookstores’ websites don’t have […]
Controversies
In a piece about the recent controversy over an Anne Frank reference in Elin Hilderbrand’s Golden Girls, Slate notes that romance author Casey McQuiston was at the center of a similar situation this week, and laments that, “The silly idea that a fictional character’s statements reflect an author’s actual beliefs is spreading.” On June 6, a Twitter user complained about a line spoken by the fictional president of the US in McQuiston’s Red, White, & Royal Blue reading, “Well, my UN ambassador f—ed up his one job and said something idiotic about Israel, and now I have to call Netanyahu […]