This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Casey McQuiston, Brad Thor, Sarah Pekkanen, and Gabino Iglesias, while Nancy Pelosi publishes a memoir. August’s children’s releases include books by Ransom Riggs, Ellen Hopkins, and Gary D. Schmidt. Also publishing this week are Abi Daré’s AND SO I ROAR and Alejandro Puyana’s FREEDOM IS A FEAST, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 40 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-august-6 10 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-august-6 50 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/august-2024-children-s-releases From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in […]
Archives for August 2024
Announcing Our Buzz Books Romance Panel
With a pre-launch at Steamy Lit Con and a full release next week on August 13 leading into Bookstore Romance Day, our popular Buzz Books: Romance sampler returns in a bigger-than-ever edition, offering samples from 21 forthcoming books across the genre. Plus, we are convening a virtual Buzz Books Romance Editors Panel on Wednesday, August 21 at 7 PM Eastern. Librarian and romance expert/enthusiast Beth Gabriel from the Milwaukee Public Library joins us as host and the featured panelists include: Sav R. Miller with editor Mary Altman, discussing PROMISE AND POMEGRANATES Sara Raasch with editor Erika Tsang, discussing THE NIGHTMARE […]
GMA’s August Book Club Pick
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Court Rules Against Circumvention of Copyright Protections
A DC Circuit Court rejected an appeal that challenged protections for copyrighted works. The case was originally brought in 2016 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of a computer science professor and a tech inventor, who argued that preventing technological measures to circumvent copyright protections, or locks on digital media–as established by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act–was unconstitutional. Their claims were struck down in 2022 in an as-applied case, and now have been denied on a facial basis. In a decision passed down on Friday, Judge Cornelia Pillard wrote, “The First Amendment protects a right to read, but it […]