Horn Book editor in chief Roger Sutton will retire at the end of the year.
Archives for 2021
Distribution: IPG
Marshall Cavendish International is now distributed by Trafalgar Square Publishing. Banipal Publishing will be distributed by TSP starting on November 1; Garnet Publishing on November 15; and Major Street Publishing on January 1, 2022. Editorial Ekeka will be distributed by IPG Spanish starting on December 1, and Antoni Bosch Editor on February 1, 2022.
Getting Gurnah
The NYT reiterates what we reported the day Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature: From his extensive backlist, only one title was active in the marketplace in print, PARADISE. On October 7, Ingram had about 300 copies available. Working with Ingram’s print-on-demand service, The New Press has been able to make more copies available quickly: NPD Bookscan shows sales to consumers of approximately 600 copies the week ending October 9, and just over 9oo copies the week ending October 16. (Update: It sold another 1,150 copies the week ending October 23.) The publisher tells the NYT they will […]
More Record Profits: Bloomsbury Up for First Half of 2021
Bloomsbury announced its “highest ever first half sales and profits” for the six-month period ending August 31. Overall sales were £101 million, up from £78 million in the first half of 2020, or 29 percent. Pre-tax earnings were £11.1 million, up from £3 million. They had one-time charges of £1.8 million, due to legal and restructuring costs of the acquisitions of House of Zeus and Red Globe Press. “These results demonstrate the strength and resilience of our strategy of publishing for both the consumer and academic markets, and our growth of digital revenues,” chief executive Nigel Newton said in a […]
New Books Publishing October 26
Tamron Hall and Cherie Priest lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes titles by Katie Couric and Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen. Also out today is the latest by Kat Martin, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Romance sampler. 18 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-26-8ea9a94d-9510-46d5-ba0a-fb500db7d1b1 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_October_/220238 17 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-26 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_October_/220239 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 submit […]
Penguin Random House Demographics Report Shows Modest Diversity Gains
Penguin Random House released its annual workforce demographics report, with the numbers showing modest improvement in diversity over last year. While the majority of employees both in non-warehouse and warehouse and jobs remain white — 74 percent, and 75 percent respectively — BIPOC employees accounted for 52 percent of new hires, up from 43 percent in 2020. Asian workers accounted for 17 percent of new hires (up from 9.9 percent); Hispanic workers accounted for 14 percent (up from 11.3 percent); and Black workers accounted for 15.9 percent (up from 13.9 percent ). Bi/Multi-racial hires fell from 7.9 to 4.8 percent. […]