Archives for September 2024
New Books Publishing September 24
Sally Rooney and Nicholas Sparks publish novels this week, while new nonfiction includes work from Jack Carr and James M. Scott. Also out this week are new books by Jami Attenberg and Rebecca Little and Colleen Long, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler, and by Sav R. Miller, featured in our Buzz Books 2024: Romance collection. 7 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-24 5 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-24 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 […]
Book Restrictions Skyrocket, Though Permanent Removals Are Down
In anticipation of Banned Books Week this week, both the American Library Association and PEN America released preliminary reports on book restrictions in public schools and libraries. In the first eight months of 2024, the ALA tracked 414 book banning attempts of 1,128 individual titles, down from 695 attempts and 1,915 titles in the same period last year. That’s a 40 percent decrease in attempts from last year, though the ALA notes that the current numbers are a marked increase since 2020. And there are likely more bans that the ALA didn’t track, as they weren’t reported by the news […]
People 9/23
Publishing Trends has updated and expanded their "contact sheets" charting literary scouts and their clients, in both the US and the UK. New sheets also list scouts by language.
People 9/20
Senior editor Robert Messenger has resigned from Simon & Schuster.
Taylor Swift Little Golden Book to Be Updated
The Little Golden Book Biography of Taylor Swift by Wendy Loggia–the second bestselling backlist title for Penguin Random House last quarter–will be rereleased on November 5 with a new cover and 22 more pages of material, Today reports. The new pages will include additional information about Swift’s life and Eras tour, as well as coloring and activity pages. The book has sold over two million copies since publication in May 2023, according to a Random House Children’s press release. Circana Bookscan has recorded print sales of approximately 1.056 million copies. The revision comes as publishing enters its Taylor Swift era. […]