Anitra Budd is stepping down as executive director and publisher of Coffee House Press on August 26, after less than one year in the role.
Archives for August 2022
New White House Policy to Make Publicly-Funded Research Free By 2026
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) updated a policy that will make publicly funded research available immediately available to the public for free. The guidance says that federal agencies must implement the policy, “including ending the optional 12-month embargo,” by the end of 2025. Currently, journals are able to hold articles behind a paywall for a year. “This policy will likely yield significant benefits on a number of key priorities for the American people, from environmental justice to cancer breakthroughs, and from game-changing clean energy technologies to protecting civil liberties in an automated world,” the announcement […]
Understanding the Contours of Growing Backlist Sales
Some interesting data has surfaced recently providing more nuance about the true scope of backlist sales — from both the antitrust trial and NPD Bookscan — that’s worthy of gathering in one place. During the pandemic, Bookscan data showed a marked acceleration of backlist sales, from roughly 62 or 63 percent of print units in 2019 up to 70 percent of print units so far this year, with a trendline that looks like it never changes direction. That has been attributed to a number of pandemic-driven effects: A shift to more online sales; a reduction in new releases (particularly early […]
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Amanda Dissinger has joined Bloomsbury as senior publicity manager in the adult trade division. She was formerly publicity manager at Algonquin.
James Tait Black Prizes
The £10,000 James Tait Black Prizes were announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Amit Chaudhuri’s Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music won the biography prize and Keith Ridgway’s A Shock won the fiction prize.
Bookselling: BN Announces Two New Locations
Barnes & Noble announced it will open two new replacement stores on August 31. The first, in Tanasbourne Town Center in Hillsboro, OR outside of Portland, replaces a nearby location that closed last year. The second, in Stony Creek Market Place in Noblesville, IN, is “literally next door” to a store that closed in January.