This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Laura Dave and Tony Tulathimutte, while Hillary Rodham Clinton and Timothy Snyder publish nonfiction. Also out this week are Rumaan Alam’s Entitlement and Becca Grischow’s I’ll Get Back to You, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler. 9 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-17 9 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-17 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out September‘s 70 fiction releases, 35 works […]
People 9/16
Damian Doggett is promoted to senior vice president and chief accounting officer at Books-A-Million.
Books to Be Restored To Libraries After Settlement in FL Case
Books including And Tango Makes Three will be restored to public school libraries in Nassau County, FL, following the settlement of a lawsuit brought by the authors and local students and parents. In their May complaint, plaintiffs including authors Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson asserted that the school board and district officials “unconstitutionally targeted And Tango Makes Three, a widely acclaimed children’s book containing LGBTQIA+ characters and themes, for removal from the District’s public school library shelves…at the behest of an anti-LGBTQIA+ advocacy group,” Citizens Defending Freedom. CDF challenged 35 other books, including those by Toni Morrison, Khaled Hosseini, Jonathan […]
OUP Eliminates Two US Departments, Including Union Members
According to a release from the Oxford University Press union, the publisher has eliminated two teams in the US, design and content transformation and standards. The layoffs affect 13 members of the union, which represents about 150 employees and ratified its first contract in August. The guild was notified of the layoffs on September 4, and were told by the company that the last working day for affected employees would be October 4. The union has filed a grievance, asserting that the layoffs violate the collective bargaining agreement, “which protects historic union work from being relocated out of the unit.” […]
People 9/12
Douglas Johnson has joined Simon & Schuster as a senior production editor.
BNED Plans to Improve Sales and Profits in 2025
Barnes & Noble Education reported results for the first quarter ended July 27—a typically soft period—with sales of $263.4 million, compared to $264.2 million last year, down slightly due to the closing of underperforming stores and below analysts’ modest expectations. Those closures, plus “lower selling and administrative expenses,” helped with the quarter’s adjusted EBITDA, which improved by $5.2 million to $(20.7) million. But the actual net loss was a big $(99.5) million, up from $(50.4) million, from costs related to the company’s refinancing plan, “including a non-cash charge of $(55.2) million due to the extinguishment of debt caused by the […]