FT Business Book of the Year Award
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller won The Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.
GMA December Pick
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton is the GMA Book Club pick for December (and is featured in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter anthology).
New Books Publishing December 6
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Sam Lipsyte, Cormac McCarthy, S. A. Cosby, and Jane Smiley, while nonfiction includes new work by Jessica Grose and Evette Dionne and the letters of John Le Carré. In YA, new books by Maureen Johnson and Adiba Jaigirdar are out this month. Plus, our own 1,994-page case-bound keepsake edition of THE TRIAL: The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster is now available from Bookshop.org as well. Also out this week is Good Enough Parenting by Timothy A. Cavell and Lauren B. Quetsch, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: […]
People 12/5
J. Carl Maxwell has joined the AAP as vice president, public policy. He is based in Washington, DC and reports to svp, government affairs Shelley Husband.
AAP Adult Sales Rose in September, As Children’s Fell and Returns Increased
While holiday sales data from NPD Bookscan continues to show unit-based year-end sales consistently underperforming last year’s big performance, the AAP’s dollar-based reports from a few months ago show a more measured accounting from reporting publishers heading into the fall. Overall trade sales were $850 million, down (2.5) percent from 2021, with strong adult results and considerably weaker children’s sales. Adult sales reached $590 million, a 3.9 percent increase. Hardcover sales of $206.4 million were down (7.4) percent from $222.8 million, while paperbacks were up 19.8 percent to $207.3 million. Mass market sales increased 13.7 percent to $18.4 million. Digital […]