Danielle Prielipp has joined Simon & Schuster as marketing director. Previously, she was assistant director, marketing & email strategy at St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
Archives for October 2022
RBmedia Acquires John Verlag’s German-language Audiobook Catalog
Audiobook company RBmedia has acquired John Verlag’s German-language audiobook catalog. The newly-acquired titles–described in a release as “predominantly nonfiction audiobooks in the politics, investigative journalism, business, biographies, and advice genres”–will be added to the RBmedia Verlag audio brand. As the company notes in the announcement, since 2021 RBmedia has acquired five European audiobook catalogs—Booka, ABOD, Hörbuch München, Éditions Thélème, and now John Verlag.
Buy or Borrow: The Trial, For Libraries
As promised last week, for our friends in the library community our landmark gigantic ebook on THE TRIAL: The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster, is now available to libraries through OverDrive. The book should be of broad interest to authors, and of particular interest to academic libraries with courses and programs in publishing and writing. Meanwhile, the general ebook is widely available now: So far sales have been highest right from the shop at Publishers Marketplace (where you can choose an epub or a PDF, and send to Kindle if that’s your preferred reader), […]
More October Picks
The Today Show's Read With Jenna Book Club chose The Whalebone Theater by Joanna Quinn as the pick for October.
The Sound of Lunch
No, it’s not a Zen koan but rather yet another new experiment from Team Lunch. For enhanced accessibility as well anyone who prefers listening to the day’s news, we are now offering a podcast of the daily newsletter. Visit or bookmark the Publishers Lunch Audio page, where we will post the daily recording after the newsletter is emailed. (There is an RSS feed as well, to notify you of new daily posts.) Each day of the week a different Lunch staff member reads you the day’s news. The index page will hold an archive of up to two weeks posts […]