Circana Bookscan reported that Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour book sold 814,000 hardcovers on Friday and Saturday at Target stores. The WSJ had previously reported that Target ordered 2 million copies of the book, which leaves plenty in inventory for the days ahead. That makes the book the fastest-selling release of 2024, and Bookscan noted it is “the second-highest adult non-fiction release in BookScan history, just behind Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, which sold 816,300 print units in its first week of sales.” More recently, that makes it comparable to the release of Colleen Hoover’s IT STARTS WITH US two […]
Archives for December 2024
Final Judgement: AAP’s Victory Over Internet Archive Becomes Permanent, and Now They’ll Get Paid
The AAP (Association of American Publishers) prevailed over the Internet Archive’s mass infringement of books twice: First in District Court in March 2023, and then again before the Court of Appeals in September 2024. December 3 was the last day in which the Internet Archive could have filed a cert petition with the Supreme Court and they did not do so — which means the previous rulings are now final. The AAP says in a statement, “We are pleased that the Second Circuit’s September 4, 2024 opinion stands as the eloquent legal ending to this case, as it draws extensively […]
Party Press
The NY Post made a lengthy “exclusive” out of a report claiming that, “Simon & Schuster staffers are fuming after their Christmas party was once again scrapped by what they called the Scrooge-like investment giant that owns the famed book publisher, The Post has learned…. ‘They are being cheap and not having a big company-wide party this year,’ one of the sources told The Post.” As for comment, S&S ceo Jonathan Karp writes to PL: “Today’s NY Post story about KKR having anything to do with S&S not having a holiday party is a total work of fiction. I made […]