The American Booksellers Association Annual Meeting and Town Hall was presented via Zoom yesterday, with outgoing president Tegan Tigani, ceo Allison Hill, and other board members sharing updates and fielding questions from booksellers. Tigani said in her introductory remarks: “The last year has been challenging. The turnover on our board mirrors turnover many of us are seeing in our stores. Our industry is experiencing high rates of burnout and churn.” She noted that booksellers are feeling strain from “reworking a school order to fit the parameters of a new budget, from testifying or waiting to testify in the Texas House […]
People 5/22
Harper Collins Says Fake Blurbs Attributed to Lisa Ko Are Being Fixed
Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers and Memory Piece, posted on Bluesky on Tuesday that fake blurbs attributed to her have appeared on the web pages of many books, including a number of Harper Collins titles. (Ko’s latest novel was published by Riverhead). She wrote that the AI-generated booklist run by the Chicago Sun-Times reminded her “that I’ve been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can’t get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?” The thread continued, “I only became […]
People 5/21
International Booker Prize
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Season Preview: Fiction
It’s another exciting season of new books ahead. To help you sift through the many thousands of planned fall and winter titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy literary, commercial, and breakout titles for adults in fiction and nonfiction, separated into key categories. Today we’re featuring our fiction list. You can start sampling the asterisked titles right now in our just-released free ebook, Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter. And you can watch terrific conversations between the five bold-faced authors and their editors in videos from our recent Buzz Books Authors and Editors Panel. (The magnetic Clay Cane’s […]