Penguin Random House will publish in multiple territories A MESSAGE FROM UKRAINE, a 144-page hardcover collecting speeches by Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, who wrote an introduction to the book as well. Crown publishes on December 6, and Hutchinson Heinemann releases November 24. PRH will also publish through Siedler (Germany), Debate (Spain), and Vogais (Portugal).
Print Sales Improved in the Third Quarter
Through the first three quarters of 2022, NPD Bookscan reports that measured print book sales reached 543 million units, still the second-best result in years. That total is 27 million below the same point in 2021, but well above 2020 and earlier. The sales comp actually improved during the third quarter, when sales were just 1.9 percent or 3.4 million units below the same period in 2021. Adult fiction (AKA Colleen Hoover fiction) remained very strong, up 9 percent in the quarter, adding 11.3 million units compared to 2021. In addition to romance, graphic novels and fantasy also performed well. […]
Bookselling: PRH’s Two-Day Holiday Shipping Returns
For the eleventh year, Penguin Random House resumes their 2-Day holiday transit program on October 15, running through January 31, 2023. As introduced last year, the program includes a “no minimums” requirement for independent bookstores. President, US Sales Jaci Updike says in the announcement, “In this time of ever-rising freight costs and ongoing shipping-company challenges, we remain steadfastly committed to independent booksellers in the all-important final months of the year.”
Third Quarter Deal Trends Show Continued Strength
So far this year, we’ve seen a record first quarter in domestic dealmaking, followed by a correction in the second quarter — which still was the second-best level in five years — and across both periods there was some weakness among the biggest deals, as well as a decline in total volume of deals from the Big Five on their own. Now, the third quarter of 2022 shows a mix of factors. Total deal volume rose again, up slightly (by 1.5 percent) and close to the record level from 2020. Non-fiction deals rebounded after a sharp falloff a year ago […]
People 10/11
At Atria, Amar Deol; Natalie Hallak; Melanie Iglesias Perez; Loan Le and Kaitlin Olson have all promoted to senior editor.
For Weekend Reading and Permanent Collections
After a small hiccup, our librarian friends should be able to find and order our new ebook THE TRIAL: The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster from Overdrive for your permanent collections. And all of our readers can enjoy the long fall weekend with a copy: Would you rather spend the time reading the full testimony of Markus Dohle, Jonathan Karp, Michael Pietsch, Madeline McIntosh, or someone else? Or perhaps you’ll jump ahead to the appendix of over 100 pages of emails and internal data and documents entered in evidence? Get yours at the […]