Last week attorneys defending the Internet Archive in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by four AAP publishers asked Judge John Koetl for a conference on their request that looks ridiculously expansive on its face. They want the publishers ordered to produce monthly sales for the past decade on all of their books, in granular detail by sales channel, and insist there isn’t “any particular burden in retrieving the information requested.” In their reply, the attorney for the publishers notes that, “Plaintiffs have produced a vast wealth of detailed sales and related financial data concerning the Works in Suit, totaling over […]
Archives for August 2021
September LibraryReads
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune tops September's Library Reads list.
Obituaries: Michael M. Thomas
Columnist and financial thriller writer Michael M. Thomas died August 7 at 85. The NYT notes that he “wrote chiefly about money and how people got it, what they did with it and what it did to them — people he dismissed as ‘social climbers, stock market papermongers, real estate shills and assorted other virtuosos of hype and blather’.” Graydon Carter told the Times, “Michael came from money, and he made money. As a result, he could write about people who came from money and made money like a modern-day Trollope.”
People 8/13
At Viking Penguin, Rebecca Marsh is promoted to director of publicity and Sara Leonard is promoted to publicist.
BookTok, Store Pick-Up Drive Indigo Gains in Q1
On Friday, Indigo announced results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2022 ended July 3, with sales of CA$172 million, up from $135 million last year, an increase of 27.4 percent. The net loss for the quarter was $21.9 million, compared to a $31.6 million loss last year. Print sales for the quarter were $104.6 million, up from $84.1 last year, driven by BookTok’s influence on backlist sales, particularly for teens, bringing a younger audience to their online business. Retail revenue increased 114.8 percent to $90.2 million, driven by store pick-up, which was up almost five times over last […]
Forthcoming: More in Chelsea Clinton’s “She Persisted” Series
Chelsea Clinton’s “She Persisted” series will expand with another picture book and a line of chapter books, Philomel announced. SHE PERSISTED IN SCIENCE: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference, written by Clinton and illustrated by Alexandra Boiger, will release on March 1 and feature Florence Nightingale, Zaha Hadid, Gladys West, Jane Goodall, Greta Thunberg, and others. The series will continue in 2022 with 10 more chapter books written by other authors on prominent figures, including Kelly Starling Lyons on Coretta Scott King and Aisha Saeed on Malala Yousafzai. Clinton will write the introductions.