The Frankfurt Book Fair has updated their expectations for admittance to this year’s show. While subject to change given the prevailing state requirements in October, “currently [visitors] must show documentation confirming that they are fully vaccinated, or that they have been tested for Covid-19 and are negative.” (It doesn’t say anything about fairground employees, however. Approximately 39 percent of Germans are fully vaccinated now.) Separately, FBF also notes that, “There will be clear rules regarding face masks at the book fair. They will be adapted to the current situation and announced shortly before the event.”
Archives for July 2021
Simon & Schuster Wins Libel Case, But Supreme Court Minority Wants to Overturn “Actual Malice” Standard
The Supreme Court let stand a verdict in favor of publisher Simon & Schuster and author Guy Lawson’s Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History (the basis of the movie War Dogs). Albanian Shkelzen Berisha had sued for defamation, but lower courts found he was a public figure with respect to stories about Albanian weapons-trafficking, and did not meet the high bar of showing that the author acted with “actual malice” in any alleged errors. That is the standard set in the significant 1964 Supreme Court decision, New York Times […]
Controveries: Cohen’s Book Has New Publisher, Title
Richard Cohen’s work of history, cancelled in May by Random House due to “the publisher’s sensitivities” over how he represented the roles of Black people and African Americans, has a new publisher — along with a new title. Simon & Schuster will publish the book, retitled Making History, in May 2022, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson has rescheduled their edition as well. Cohen tells the Guardian the added material “has improved the book” and says of the new title, “I actually think it’s better than The History Makers.” The title change came after a cease and desist letter from Julieanna Richardson, […]
New Books Publishing July 6
Dana Spiotta, Violet Kupersmith, and Caroline B. Cooney lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes titles by Michael Pollan, Matt Haig, Amy Sohn and more. Also new this week are titles from Carolyn Ferrell, as well as Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer sampler. 32 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-6 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_July_/219551 8 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-6 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_July_/219552 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 […]
People 7/6
Bookselling
Barnes & Noble will close their store in Fort Wayne, ID’s Jefferson Pointe Shopping Center, where they have been an anchor tenant, on August 22. The company will open a new location in the Orchard Crossing Shopping Center in September. Australian bookseller Dymocks aims to add 25 new locations over the next three years, significant growth from their current roster of 50 outlets, CEO Mark Newman told Inside Franchise Business Executive.