The Bolton book has claimed the headlines leading up to release today, but as usual a number of notable titles come to market this week — including the rescheduled release of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel DEATH IN HER HANDS. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 9 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-23 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Fiction_Publishing_June_23/217221 10 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-23 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_June_23/217222 More new children’s/YA books https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-june https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_in_June/216958 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three […]
Zondervan Moves Trade Lines to Nashville, Under New Leadership
Harper Christian announced that it will relocate the Zondervan Books and Zondervan Thrive imprints to Nashville, TN, to “allow for sharing of best practices across the company’s trade book publishing program” for both Thomas Nelson and Zondervan. Webster Younce will become vp and publisher for the two Zondervan trade lines. He has been associate publisher and executive editor at Nelson Books. Senior director of marketing for the Thomas Nelson and Zondervan fiction programs Paul Fisher becomes vp of marketing for the two Zondervan imprints. Zondervan will retain an office Grand Rapids, MI for its other lines, including Zondervan Academic, Zondervan Reflective, […]
Macmillan Creates “A Different and More Inclusive Management Team”
On Monday, Macmillan ceo John Sargent told staff in a letter that the company would make a broad change in its leadership: “It is clear that we have to change who occupies the seats at the table when the important decisions are being made. It can no longer be Don [Weisberg], Andrew [Weber] and me.” They are creating a new management committee comprising 13 people “who will meet regularly to decide on the key issues for Macmillan” and “will focus on running the overall company.” Sargent will not sit on the new committee and “will step back from day to […]
Bolton Book Winds Up Posted Online for Free
After a Federal judge denied the government’s request for a temporary restraining order blocking publication of John Bolton’s THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED, due to publish Tuesday, on Saturday night unauthorized free PDF versions of book wound up online. Something similar had happened with Michael Wolff’s FIRE AND FURY, when Wikileaks posted a free version of the UK edition for a few hours. In that case, Macmillan ceo John Sargent later estimated the illegal posting had likely lost them sales of 400,000 to 500,000 units. This time the file looks to be the regular US edition. It seems to have […]
Freedom to Publish Is Alive In the Age of Trump, Though Bolton Will Likely Forfeit Earnings
On Saturday morning Judge Royce Lamberth denied the Department of Justice’s half-hearted argument to “stop” publication of John Bolton’s book THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED, since it is already out in the world. “While Bolton’s unilateral conduct raises grave national security concerns, the government has not established that an injunction is an appropriate remedy.” Or, for that matter, an effective remedy, since “in the Internet age, even a handful of copies in circulation could irrevocably destroy confidentiality.” While Judge Lamberth “is persuaded that defendant Bolton likely jeopardized national security by disclosing classified information in violation of his nondisclosure agreement obligations,” […]
Judge Suspects the Bolton Horse Is Out of the Barn, But He Still Faces Jeopardy For Publishing without Approval
The likely futility of the DOJ’s request for a temporary restraining order blocking publication of John Bolton’s THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED — which has effectively already been published and distributed around the world — was clear in a lengthy Friday afternoon hearing before Judge Royce Lamberth as soon as he deployed his Texas lexicon: “It seems to me…that the horse, as we used to say in Texas, seems to be out of the barn.” The government’s weak response was that “the onus is on Mr. Bolton to figure out how to” recall the hundreds of thousands of books in […]