At Penguin Life, Nina Rodriguez-Marty has joined as associate editor. Previously she was at Portfolio Books.
Archives for April 2022
Hayek Book Prize
WH Smith’s High Street Sales Flat While Travel Recovered
UK retailer WH Smith reported six-month results for the period ended February 28. Sales at their High Street bookstores remained flat at the historically low level of £270 million, which had been down (14) percent a year ago compared to before the pandemic, when sales were £315 million (and that period, in turn, was down from £333 million as of February 2019). High Street trading profit was £35 million, up slightly from £33 million last year. The company said, “Our High Street business delivered a resilient and profitable performance in the period, despite the challenges facing the UK high street…and […]
Women’s Prize Shortlist
Obituary: Lou Satz
Lou Satz, 94, who worked for many years in sales at Bantam Books, died on April 9. The Penguin Random House in-house newsletter notes that his “driving sales leadership for such reprint titles as THE EXORCIST, ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, and JAWS helped position Bantam Books as a twentieth century mass-market paperback publishing powerhouse.”
The Buzz Books Editors Panel Returns, On May 18
We are open for registration for our fifth, much anticipated, virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel, convening on Wednesday, May 18 at 7 PM Eastern. Once again, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with Who? Weekly podcaster and author Bobby Finger as emcee. (His debut novel, The Old Place, is excerpted in our upcoming edition of Buzz Books.) Register here now for the panel and note: The first 50 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. On May 10, a week ahead of the panel, we’ll release the […]