Barnes & Noble announced their 10 best books of the year so far. (For what it’s worth, a year ago only one of their mid-year “so far” picks — Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner — also made it onto the chain’s best books of the year lists in December.): Book Lovers, by Emily Henry Book of Night, by Holly Black The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan Daughter of the Moon Goddess, by Sue Lynn Tan The Hacienda, by Isabel Cañas I Will Die in a Foreign Land, by Kalani Pickhart Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus To Paradise, […]
Archives for June 2022
Pearson Sells K-12 Businesses in Italy and Germany
Pearson announced that it has sold its K-12 courseware (e.g. textbook) businesses in Italy and Germany to European learning services company Sanoma Corporation, for £163 million in cash. Sanoma will also handle Italian distribution of Pearson’s English Language Teaching products. In 2021, the Italian and German textbook businesses generated sales of about £90 million and adjusted operating profit of about £9 million, the company said in a release. The sale price reflects an enterprise value multiple of 15.5x, they noted. Pearson has done better with their international K-12 textbook lines than they did in the US, where they practically gave […]
Book Club Picks
The next pick for Oprah's Book Club is Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley.
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New Books Publishing June 7
In this mammoth week of new releases, Tom Perrotta, Therese Anne Fowler and Matthew Quirk lead new titles in fiction, while nonfiction includes memoirs from James Patterson and Charles McGrath. Also out today are eight titles featured in advance in our Buzz Books 2022: Spring/Summer sampler, by Nishant Batsha, Carter Bays, Sloane Crosley, Salma El-Wardany, J. M. Miro, Annabel Monaghan and Claire Pooley. 38 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-7 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_June/223102 19 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-7 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_June_/223103 27 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-june https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_In_June/223101 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming […]
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Emi Ikkanda will joining Tiny Reparations Books as executive editor on August 1, reporting to John Parsley. She will also acquire selectively for Dutton and Plume. She was previously at Seal Press.