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Our Holiday Schedule
It’s a nice, long holiday stretch ahead. This is our last regularly-scheduled newsletter for a while — unless there’s news that merits another mail on Monday. We will be back at least once before 2024 ends, to stay on top of whatever develops. Deals newsletters will maintain their regular schedule through to Monday’s weekly round-up, and from there will also be more occasional — depending upon the flow of deal reports. As always, PublishersMarketplace.com works for you 24/7 no matter what, and we will be reporting and clipping news to the website, adding new deals as they flow in, posting […]
The Continuing Rise of Bloom Books
The NYT celebrates the continuing success of Sourcebooks’ Bloom Books imprint. In 2023 Bloom had already grown to sales of more than $100 million less than three years after its founding, and sales for 2024 are up another 58 percent. “In an era when TikTok can catapult authors to success overnight, Bloom has developed a lucrative formula: courting self-published authors who have a built-in fan base, taking over their print distribution, building up their brand and market share and turning them into mainstream best sellers. That model has propelled the careers of novelists who now rank among the genre’s most […]
The Very Best of the Best Books of 2024
The votes are all in and we’re ready to celebrate the consensus very best books of 2024, based on a broad collection of lists. As was plainly clear from the start, Percival Everett’s JAMES towered above all others as the consensus book of the year. In nonfiction, Hanif Abdurraqib’s THERE’S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR was a leader from the start as well, joined in the end by Salman Rushdie’s KNIFE to share the distinction of nonfiction book of the year. Liz Moore’s GOD OF THE WOODS was first featured in one of our Buzz Books samplers, and in all, 17 books […]
2024: The Year In Mergers
It was a pretty odd and modest year in mergers and acquisitions if we are being honest. Not only were there no blockbuster deals, there were very few acquisitions of any significant scale at all. There was a cluster of distress sales, however: Australian retailer was bought out of bankruptcy reorganization, as was Tattered Cover in Colorado. Barnes & Noble Education avoided delisting of its stock through a complicated refinancing that left Immersion Corporation in control. Canadian retailer Indigo went private in order to reorganize and recover, and Endeavor went private again after only a few years as a public […]
2024: The Year In Stories
As noted briefly in our anniversary post last month, it’s been another busy year for the small but mighty crew at PL + PM, with multiple site enhancements as well as daily reporting that goes deeper than ever. Below is an informal recap, not necessarily of the year’s “biggest” stories, but of pieces and coverage areas where Lunch has brought an extra dimension to community knowledge: All Things AI We have endeavored to provide serious consideration of the issues, opportunities, and egregious theft throughout the year. Among some of our more notable firsts and/or onlies: We revealed the actual AI […]