The American Booksellers Association released its July Indie Next List, with Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin in the #1 spot.
Archives for June 2022
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Alison Hinchcliffe has been promoted to publicity manager at the William Morrow Group.
Amazon to Discontinue Kindle In China
Amazon announced today that it will stop supplying retailers in China with Kindle ereaders this week, and plans to shutter its ebookstore there in June 2023. In 2024, the Kindle App will be removed from stores and users will no longer be able to access digital books they have purchased. Chinese customers who purchased a Kindle device in 2022 have been offered a refund. Reuters reports that the company said it’s “adjusting the strategic focus of its operations” but that its other remaining businesses in China will continue. Amazon effectively closed its main eretailing business in China in 2019, and […]
AP Stylebook Updates Recommendations for Inclusive Storytelling
The 56th edition of The Associated Press Stylebook, released on Wednesday, includes updated guidance for reporting on race, gender, disability, and more, as well as a new chapter on inclusive storytelling, Poynter reports. Among the updates are recommendations to capitalize Deaf when referring to the Deaf community and to use they/them/their as much as possible for individuals who use those pronouns. The Stylebook recommends avoiding the acronym CRT when discussing critical race theory, and using “terrorism” only when attributed to authorities or discussing historical events. “Supervised injection sites,” “safe injection sites” and “overdose prevention” can now be used interchangeably, as can […]
Imprints: Post Hill Press Launches Twin Flame
Post Hill Press is launching Twin Flame, a new nonfiction imprint focused on “spirituality, tantra, relationships, and sexuality for worldwide distribution.” Elena Vega will lead as editorial director. Vega was previously an editor at Macmillan and Simon & Schuster, as well as a freelance editor for Post Hill Press. The imprint plans to publish “two dozen books per year.”
What Ingram Learned Studying 150,000 Titles on Amazon for Three Years
The Ingram Consumer Insights team has a terrific analysis detailing observations from studying the sales of 150,000 titles on Amazon over a three-year period. They chart how Amazon’s “lost” buy boxes for books (which send preferred sales to third-parties) directly correlate to supply chain issues, from the onset of the pandemic to periods of printing shortages. (Unfortunately the study period ends in August 2021, so it does not show us the most recent holiday selling season or any other recent changes.) In normal times, about 25 percent of buy boxes go to third-parties — though the leading winner of those […]