Barnes & Noble is eliminating certain books from their online catalog. Some digital book distributors have been tasked with removing all of their erotica ISBNs from feeding onto the site, as well as public domain works and “summary” titles that bill themselves as guides to other popular books. Additionally, B&N is updating the search function on their site so that customers “can decide to see clearly explicit content or not.” Senior director of book strategy & customer experience Shannon DeVito told PL that this is a quality-control move that will not affect major publishers. It will also not influence what’s […]
Archives for August 2024
People 8/14
Distribution: IPG Adds Five Publishers
IPG will distribute Whimspire Books in the US and Canada starting February 1, 2025; IPG Melbourne Books in the US and Canada starting January 1, 2025; BLoved Publishing in the US, Canada, and the UK starting November 1, 2024; and Anderson Entertainment in the US and Canada on January 1, 2025. Additionally, it now distributes WTAW Press worldwide.
People 8/13
Rebecca Reisert has joined as managing editor. She was previously at Penguin.
Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List
Barack Obama posted his annual summer reading list.
New Books Publishing August 13
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by T.J. Newman, Yoko Ogawa, and Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, while Anupreeta Das, Nate Silver, and Brenda Wineapple publish nonfiction. Also out this week is OUR NARROW HIDING PLACES by Kristopher Jansma, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 31 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-august-13 11 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-august-13 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out August‘s 105 fiction […]