Norton has entered an exclusive audiobook partnership with RBmedia, expanding the companies’ existing partnership. Norton audiobooks will be published across a number of RBmedia brands, including Recorded Books, Tantor, Dreamscape, HighBridge, and Ascent Audio, and available for download on leading audio platforms. “Audio has become essential to the way that readers discover and engage with books, and we are thrilled to expand our reach via this unique partnership,” said Elisabeth Kerr, Norton’s director of content and business strategy, in a release. “RBmedia and Norton have had an exceptional working relationship for years, and this new agreement deepens that collaboration—expanding awareness […]
Archives for December 2025
The Best Lists 2025
The votes are all in and we’re ready to celebrate the consensus very best books of 2025, based on a broad collection of lists. This has been an extraordinary year for authors and listmakers, with a wide variety of books receiving endorsements and no clear “books of the year.” Arundhati Roy’s memoir tops our count, by a single vote only, followed closely by novels from Katie Kitamura, Megha Majumdar and Kiran Desai, and Sophie Elmhirst in nonfiction. Despite the lack of a dominant title or titles, in some ways it was harder to qualify this year than last. In fiction, […]
Obituary: Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz, 95, the longtime editor of Commentary, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was the author of more than a dozen books, including the memoir Making It.
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Ask an Expert: Senior Publicist Kindall Gant
Kindall Gant is a senior publicist at Phaidon. Prior to her current role, Kindall held a variety of positions at Hachette Book Group, Oxford University Press, Poets & Writers, and Artbook D.A.P. In addition to her full-time roles with trade, academic, and independent publishers, she has volunteered at Ugly Duckling Presse as a contributing editor and as a reader at a literary organization called The Word Works. In her free time, she writes poetry and creative nonfiction. You can find more about her writing at kindallgant.com. Her newly acquired book THE HARLEM TABLE is forthcoming from Phaidon. Tell us a […]
‘Nobody’s Girl’ Sells 1 Million Copies
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s NOBODY’S GIRL, her posthumous memoir of sexual abuse and trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein, has sold 1 million copies around the world after its publication in October, the AP reports. According to Knopf, North American sales make up more than half of that number, and the book is in its tenth printing in the US. “This is a bittersweet moment for us,” Giuffre’s family said in a statement. “We are enormously proud of our sister, and the impact she continues to have on the world. We’re also filled with so much sorrow that she couldn’t be here to […]