The Horn Book announced three 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, as well as six honor books.
Archives for June 2023
USA Today Bestseller List Returns
After editorial layoffs forced USA Today’s Best-selling Booklist to go on hiatus in December 2022, the list relaunched today. Like the old list, the new list will consist of 150 titles in all genres, including self-published books, and combine print and digital sales numbers. Previously, compiling the list was a manual process, but now is automated. A release explains that the list is “based exclusively on sales analysis from U.S. booksellers including bookstore chains, independent bookstores, mass merchandisers and online retailers.” “The relaunch is an automated effort that still uses the same algorithm we already had in place but now […]
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Amazon Continues to Fight Minimum Shipping Fee in France
Amazon has appealed to the highest court in France, seeking to overturn a law that would impose a minimum €3 fee to ship books under €35, Reuters reports. The law is intended to protect independent retailers, which can’t match Amazon’s typical delivery fee of one cent. “This measure will deal a severe blow to the budgets of French people and will limit their access to books at a time when consumers’ purchasing power is one of their main worries,” Amazon France chief executive Frederic Duval told Reuters. The law is set to go into effect in October.
Imprints: Inklore, Assembly Press
Penguin Random House is launching a new pop-comics imprint, Inklore, that will publish “manga, manhua, manhwa, webcomics adaptations, and light novels” in collaboration with Del Rey UK. They write in a release that the Inklore “will be a pop-comics imprint celebrating the most popular, fan-driven tropes in visual storytelling, with a focus on digital-to-print licensed publishing in the romance, fantasy, science fiction, horror, and slice-of-life genres.” Keith Clayton, vp & deputy publisher, Random House Worlds will lead the imprint in the US. Rebecca Taylor will serve as editorial director. Ben Brusey, publishing director at Century, will head the UK team, […]