Archives for September 2025
Oprah’s Book Club
PM “Fall” Feature Week #2: Better Comps and Benchmarks
Following the unveiling of expanded Dealmakers lists targeting publishers of different size and the people who do business with them, we continue our big feature launch week with “Top Deals,” another tab within the Dealmakers world. Top Deals shows you the 25 top-selling deals within each of our almost 100 sub-categories. And for each of those subject areas, you can see the top sellers of all time (remember that Bookscan data goes back to 2004) as well as the best-performing titles sorted by most recent publication date. Suddenly, you can find a world of comps — both recent, and all […]
New Books Publishing September 9
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Dan Brown, Mick Herron, and Jason Diamond, while new nonfiction includes work from Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Coney Barrett, Stephen Curry, Sally Mann, and Lee Child. Also publishing this week are new titles by Alejandro Varela, Samantha Browning Shea, and Gerta Keller, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter anthology. Watch Keller discuss her research on the real cause of dinosaur extinction during our nonfiction buzz books panel. 14 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-9 26 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-9 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We […]
National Book Award Longlists Kick Off With Young People’s Literature
Judge Will Not Approve Anthropic Settlement For Now; Demands More Procedural Details and May Still Send to Trial
On Sunday District Court Judge William Alsup told the attorneys in a letter he was “disappointed that counsel have left important questions to be answered in the future,” expressing broad concern about the procedural details — including “the Works List, the Class List, the Claim Form, and, particularly for works with multiple claimants, the processes for notification (for opt-out, so-called re-inclusion, and claims, whether a given choice is exercised by one, some, or all co- claimants), allocation, and dispute resolution.” At Monday’s hearing, Judge Alsup denied the initial motion for preliminary approval of the $1.5 billion settlement without prejudice, saying […]