The Association of American Publishers released data from participating StatShot publishers, reporting trade sales of $687 million in July, a 21.5 percent increase from 2023. That’s close to the best July ever, recorded in 2021, when sales were $705 million. And the strong AAP reports show publisher dollars running well ahead of unit sales, which were nearly flat for the first six months of the year as measured by Circana Bookscan, down 0.5%. Adult books sold $505 million, up 24 percent, led by paperbacks, which sold $177 million (compared to $150 million last year) and made up 35 percent of […]
Distribution: Six to IPG
Starting January 1, Independent Publishers Group will start distributing Siglo XXI Editores worldwide, PAPP International in the US, and Rupa Publications and Editorial Patmos in the US and Canada. On March 1, 2025, The Little Press will be distributed worldwide by IPG. Additionally, Bruna Publishing is distributed by IPG as of September 1.
New Books Publishing October 8
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Chuck Palahniuk, Alan Hollinghurst, and Ben Mezrich, while John Edgar Wideman, Steve Wasserman, and Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough publish nonfiction. Also publishing this week are new books by Dava Sobel, Kate Greathead, Anna Rasche, Robert Beatty, Del Sandeen, and Sarah Sawyer, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler, and by Amanda M. Helander, Freya Marske, Sara Raasch, and Jill Tew, available in our Buzz Books 2024: Romance sampler. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-8 13 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-8 From Buzz Books […]
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Skyhorse Tried to Charge CNN for Melania Trump Book Interview
CNN reports that when they requested an interview with Melania Trump surrounding her eponymous book, which publishes October 8 from Skyhorse, the publisher sent back an NDA with a clause that “CNN shall pay a licensing fee of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)” for an interview and the use of photos and excerpts from the book. The news organization notes that they did not sign the agreement, which came after weeks of discussions with the publisher. The contract “laid out strict terms for an interview and use of material from the book” and had signature lines for the agent, […]