RBmedia has acquired German audiobook publisher ABOD, which will supply titles to its newly launched German-language audio brand RBmedia Verlag. ABOD licenses and produces audio titles from German publishers, focusing on nonfiction, primarily politics and economics. ABOD founder and ceo Rudi Singer, said, “Since founding ABOD in 2012, I have put much work and care into building a first-rate audio catalog. With RBmedia’s vision, I am confident that we will see these efforts continue to gain momentum.” Chicago Review Press has acquired LGBTQ+ fiction publisher Interlude Press, including a catalog of nearly 100 titles, and its YA imprint Duet Books. […]
Archives for January 2022
Norman Mailer Collection To Be Published By Skyhorse
Skyhorse Publishing will release an anthology of the late Norman Mailer’s essays after Random House declined to make an offer for publication. One of the author’s sons Michael Mailer told the AP the publisher suggested a collection as part of the planned commemoration in 2023 of the hundredth anniversary of Mailer’s birth. “The family, along with Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon, ‘put together a proposal for a collection of political essays on democracy.'” Mailer said Random House “liked [it] and then decided later not to proceed due to objections, putatively, from certain junior executives.” Michael Wolff had claimed in a […]
January Book Club Picks
The Next Buzz Books Editors Panel Coming Soon
We are open for registration for our fourth, much anticipated, virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel, convening on Wednesday, January 26th at 7 PM Eastern. Once again, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with co-owner of Books Are Magic bookstore and bestselling novelist Emma Straub as the host. (Her latest novel, This Time Tomorrow, is out in May.) You can register here — and the first 50 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. On January 18th, a week ahead of the panel, we’ll release the next packed edition of our popular digital sampler, Buzz […]
January Book Club Picks
Barnes & Noble announced its National Book Club pick for January.
New Books Publishing January 4
Titles by Laura Lippman, and Xochitl Gonzalez lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes new work from Scarlett Thomas and Mark Bowden. Also out today is a debut from Jessamine Chan, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler. 18 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_December_/220760 8 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_January_/221139 25 new children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-january https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_in_January/221137 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 […]