The ABA announced the February Indie Next List, with How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix in the top spot.
Archives for January 2023
Bookselling: B&N to Open Store in the Hamptons
Barnes & Noble will open a store in Bridgehampton Commons, its first location in the Hamptons, in summer 2023. (In November, they added another Long Island store, in Riverhead.) CEO James Daunt says, “We are very happy to be bringing a bookstore to Bridgehampton, a community we have wanted to be a part of for many, many years. We do so at a time when there is renaissance in reading underway, with bookstores bursting with energy.”
Audio: Apple Books Adds Digital Narration; RBmedia Acquisitions
Apple Books has launched digital narration for English language audiobooks, beginning with select fiction and romance titles, focused on self-published authors and small publishers. The new initiative produces AI-narrated audiobooks out of ebooks in the Apple Books library. Authors/publishers retain audio rights and can still produce and distribute other audio versions of the book as well. Prospective titles must be nominated and will be evaluated based on “file quality, content compatibility (no complex formatting elements, and limited foreign language words and phrases), and editorial review.” If titles are not immediately approved, they will remain eligible for future approval. Release date, […]
Our Next Buzz Books Editors Panel
We are open for registration for our sixth virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel, convening on Wednesday, January 25th at 7 PM Eastern. Once again, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with Publisher Lunch founder Michael Cader hosting. You can register here — and the first 50 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. On January 17th, a week ahead of the panel, we’ll release the next packed edition of our popular digital sampler, Buzz Books 2023: Spring/Summer, with substantial excerpts from all of the Editors Panel books, along […]
Reese’s Book Club Pick
Reese Witherspoon chose The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes as her January Book Club pick.
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Sara Bershtel has joined Penguin Press as editor-at-large. She was previously svp, publisher at Metropolitan Books. Penguin Press president Ann Godoff said, “By any measure Sara Bershtel is one of this era’s most consequential editors and publishers of books that matter, books that last. I speak for everyone when I say that it’s a joy and an honor to welcome her to Penguin Press."