The American Library Association named the shortlist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence.
People 11/5
Lex Higbee has promoted to senior publicist at Bloomsbury Children's.
Swedish Study Finds Print Bestsellers Are Longer, More Complex Than Top Audio Titles
In a paper published in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, Karl Berglund and Mads Dahllöf of Uppsala University in Sweden compared bestselling print and audiobooks and found marked differences in the top titles in each format. Berglund and Dahllöf analyzed print bestsellers and the most popular digital audiobooks on subscription platforms (“beststreamers”) published in Sweden between 2015 and 2019, a total of 172 novels. They found that “Print bestsellers are longer, syntactically more complex and varied, and seem to focus more on depiction. Beststreaming audiobooks, by contrast, are shorter, more straightforwardly written, and appear to highlight plot and dialogue.” Even […]
People 11/4
Dennis Lee joins Zando as head of finance and operations. He was previously at Harper Collins.
Sales Increases at HMH, Bertelsmann
On Thursday, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt reported third quarter earnings for the period ending September 30, with sales of $417 million, up 25.9 percent from 2020. The company reported income of $95 million, up from a loss of ($12) million last year. They claim these are “strong” results, and the company increased their full year billings guidance for the second time, to $1.075–1.095 billion, up from $980 million–$1.02 billion. But the bar was mighty low. Two years ago sales for the same quarter were $566 million (with $48 million from the now-sold trade division). “Underpinning these growth opportunities is a large […]
December Indie Next List
The ABA named Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan as the No. 1 pick for December’s Indie Next List, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler.