Norwegian author Jon Fosse, 64, won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."
Archives for October 2023
Last Call for Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer
Publishers: If you haven’t submitted your title nominations for the forthcoming Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler, you need to do so by Monday, October 16th. For more information, or if you missed your invitation, please contact Robin Dellabough, robin@publishersmarketplace.com. We’ll have a separate call/reminder for flagging your notable titles for our big seasonal previews, so stay tuned.
People 10/4
Kelley Ragland has been named vp, publishing director, Minotaur Books.
Spotify Launches New Audiobook Plan, Giving Subscribers Free Audiobook Hours
Music streaming platform Spotify is rolling out a new audiobooks program, as first suggested in the WSJ last month (and signalled at the London Book Fair in April), giving subscribers 15 hours of audiobooks a month at no extra charge. The program launches today in the UK and Australia, and will expand to the US later this year, the company said in a presentation on Tuesday, with other territories added soon. If listeners exceed 15 hours they can buy “top-ups” in 10 hour increments for $10.99. In the presentation on Tuesday, Spotify ceo Daniel Ek said that subscribers will have […]
Harper Will No Longer Publish Book About Jamal Khashoggi
Harper Collins will no longer publish SAY YOUR WORD, THEN LEAVE: The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and the Power of the Truth by Karen Attiah, the author shared on social media. Attiah was Khashoggi’s friend and editor at the Washington Post. “After nearly four years of writing the book, meeting every deadline, my (now former) publisher inexplicably stopped the editing process, forcing me to pull the book,” she wrote. The book, which was sold by Anthony Mattero at CAA to Dey Street in 2019, was slated for publication in February 2024 but no longer appears on retailer sites or the […]