Starting January 1, Independent Publishers Group will start distributing Siglo XXI Editores worldwide, PAPP International in the US, and Rupa Publications and Editorial Patmos in the US and Canada. On March 1, 2025, The Little Press will be distributed worldwide by IPG. Additionally, Bruna Publishing is distributed by IPG as of September 1.
Archives for October 2024
Obituary: Lore Segal
Lore Segal, 96, died on October 6 in her home in Manhattan. Born in Vienna, Segal spent her childhood as a Jewish refugee in England, and later emigrated to the United States. Her first novel, Other People’s Houses, was serialized in the New Yorker before being published in 1964. Other works include Lucinella, Shakespeare’s Kitchen, and Her First American.
Perfect Bound Technologies Acquires PubMatch
Perfect Bound Technologies has bought rights and licensing marketplace PubMatch. Publishers using Perfect Bound will now be able to access to PubMatch’s network of rights professionals. The acquisition will also aid management of metadata, sales, files, contracts and royalty accounting. The companies expect the integration of PubMatch to be finished by Q4 of 2024. Chris Yeung, president and cto of Perfect Bound, said, “By integrating PubMatch’s rights management features with our existing platform, we aim to provide publishers with an even more comprehensive solution that covers every aspect of the publishing process, from manuscript to market.”
New Books Publishing October 8
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Chuck Palahniuk, Alan Hollinghurst, and Ben Mezrich, while John Edgar Wideman, Steve Wasserman, and Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough publish nonfiction. Also publishing this week are new books by Dava Sobel, Kate Greathead, Anna Rasche, Robert Beatty, Del Sandeen, and Sarah Sawyer, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler, and by Amanda M. Helander, Freya Marske, Sara Raasch, and Jill Tew, available in our Buzz Books 2024: Romance sampler. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-8 13 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-8 From Buzz Books […]
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Obituary: Robert Coover
Robert Coover, 92, died on October 5 in Warwick, England. Coover was one of the pioneers of post-modern American fiction. His first book, The Origin of the Brunists, was published in 1966. His many other books include the short story collection Pricksongs and Descants, the novel The Public Burning, and his most recent novel Open House, published in 2023. A longtime teacher at Brown University, his students included Rick Moody, Joanna Scott, Jim Shepard, Sam Lipsyte, Ben Marcus, and Alexandra Kleeman.