Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will sell and distribute Christian imprint Guideposts in the US and Canada, effective March 1, 2025. Macmillan will handle US and international sales for the Darrington Press, the publishing arm of media and tabletop roleplaying game company Critical Role — starting in spring 2025 with the launch of the role playing game Daggerheart Core Set and other titles. It will sell new titles in 2026 and 2027.
Archives for January 2025
Book Club Picks
Harper Holland Acquires Altamira, Becht, Dominicus, and Hollandia
Harper Holland has acquired lifestyle imprints Altamira, Becht, Dominicus, and Hollandia from Gottmer Uitgevers Groep, effective March 1, 2025. Associated staff will stay on at the imprints. Jan-Joris Keijzer, managing director, HarperCollins Holland says in a release, “The lifestyle imprints Altamira, Becht, Dominicus, and Hollandia have an impressive publishing history, exceptional authors, and great books and have become strong brands in their own right, trusted by generations of readers. We are proud to welcome these brands and their fantastic supporting team members under the umbrella of the HarperCollins publishing group and look forward to shaping the future of the publishing house […]
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New Books Publishing January 7
This week’s fiction releases include Adam Haslett, Alafair Burke, and a never-before-published novel by Zora Neale Hurston, while new nonfiction includes work from Rachel Hollis and Martha Beck. January’s children’s releases include books by Brigid Kemmerer and Gayle Forman. Also publishing this week are new titles by Karissa Chen, Jane Yang, and Fiona Davis, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler. 21 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-7 8 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-7 30 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/january-2025-children-s-releases From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our […]
The New Bestsellers of 2024
Romance, romantasy, and domestic suspense dominated the bestselling books of 2024: Twenty percent of the top 200 print books according to Circana Bookscan–as of December 28–were written by four authors, with 16 spots taken by Sarah J. Maas, 11 by Freida McFadden, 8 by Ana Huang, and 6 by Colleen Hoover. The biggest title of the year was Kristin Hannah’s The Women, which sold 1.49 million copies since publishing in February. Frontlist titles make up 57 of the top 200, or about 29 percent–in line with last year’s list and the broader trend that has backlist comprising about 70 percent […]