Walmart has launched the Walmart Book Club, which will feature five titles for adults annually–one for each season and one Pick of the Year. “Our team of book merchants will select titles based on reading trends, relevancy and industry market data–helping to identify exciting titles Walmart customers are sure to love,” the company said in a release. The books will have a Walmart Book Club sticker on the cover. The inaugural title is Ali Hazelwood‘s Love on the Brain, which publishes today.
Case Closed: The Final Words, in Full
On Friday, publishing’s big trial came to end–even if an anticlimactic one. Further to our attempt at live transcription on Friday, attached here are the final arguments in full. In his closing, DOJ attorney John Read recognized the “passion” involved in writing and publishing books, but noted that this trial is about business and law. “This is about the largest publisher, Penguin Random House, cementing its position” at the top of the market, he said “which is per se illegal, and the defendants have failed to rebut that presumption.” PRH counsel Daniel Petrocelli continued to assert that the government’s $250,000 advance […]
Obituary: Michael Malone
Novelist Michael Malone died on August 19 of pancreatic cancer. He was the author of 14 books including First Lady and he won an Edgar Award in 1997 for his short story “Red Clay.” He also won a daytime Emmy in 1994 for his writing on One Life to Live.
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Andrew Stoddard join as vp, publisher of the Nelson Books imprint on September 7. He was previously editorial director for Waterbrook & Multnomah at Penguin Random House.
The (Almost) Final Arguments
Given the keen interest and timeliness of the closing arguments presented Friday morning in the antitrust trial, we’re going against our usual practices here. What you see below is our version of something between live tweeting and live transcribing, trying to capture the major points and moments, without delving into the case law. As we’ve been doing the whole trial, we will update this post over the weekend with fact-checked quotes, and full transcripts so you can read the arguments in full. We apologize in the meantime for any typos or mistaken abbreviations as we fed these remarks back to […]
Booktopia Founder Calls for Removal of the Board Members Who Fired Him
Founder of Australian online bookseller Booktopia Tony Nash has called a shareholder meeting to remove board members who fired him as ceo, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Nash, who owns 14 percent of shares, has proposed to remove two non-executive directors from the board, chair Chris Beare and Su-Ming Wong, as well as anyone else appointed since August 17. He also intends to appoint Abigail Cheadle to the board. “Tony Nash Enterprises Pty Ltd proposes to call, and arrange to hold, an extraordinary general meeting of the company for the purpose of considering, and if thought fit, passing the following […]