Bel Banta has joined Harper as senior publicist. She was previously at Viking.
Archives for November 2023
RIP WSJ Bestseller Lists
On November 4 the Wall Street Journal published their final set of book bestseller lists licensed from Circana Bookscan (for the sales week ending October 28). After 14 years of licensing Bookscan data, Dow Jones decided to let their agreement expire. The newspaper began using Bookscan print book sales data for their bestseller lists in 2009 and in late 2011 Bookscan started supplying them with ebook sales data for inclusion in the WSJ charts as well.
Distribution: De Gruyter
Ingram Academic and Professional will distribute, sell, and market Walter De Gruyter in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. De Gruyter will use Ingram’s distribution and printing services, sales force, and digital services beginning in January 2024.
Forthcoming: Pope Francis’s LIFE
In Spring 2024, HarperCollins will publish Life. My Story Through History by Pope Francis. The book originated with HarperCollins Italy, and will be published by Harper globally in Italy, the US, UK, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Poland, and South America. In a release, the company said the book “tells for the first time the story of his life through the events that have marked humanity—from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 when he was almost three years old, to the present day.” Additionally, “The Pope’s voice alternates with that of a narrator, Fabio Marchese […]
New Books Publishing November 7
Rebecca Yarros and Paul Auster publish new fiction this week and Megan Fox’s poetry collection debuts, while nonfiction includes work by Barbra Streisand, Stephanie Land, Ben Mezrich, Tracy K. Smith, Fei-Fei Li, and Fuchsia Dunlop—plus Rob Copeland’s book on Ray Dalio and Bridgewater Associates. In children’s, Christopher Paolini and Amber Smith publish new YA novels this month. Also out this week are new books by Lisa Gornick, Salar Abdoh, Naomi Alderman, Jazmina Barrera, Elizabeth Crook, Naoise Dolan, Emma Grey, Sigrid Nunez, and Court Stevens, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter anthology, and Leigh Heasley’s THE ONCE AND FUTURE […]
People 11/6
At Macmillan, Catherine Marvin has been promoted to senior director on the communications team.