Piranesi by Susanna Clarke won the Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Kate Garrick has joined Salky Literary Management as agent, moving her list with her from The Karpfinger Agency. Rachel Altemose has been promoted to junior agent.
Distribution: Do Books
At the end of the year, Chronicle Books will no longer distribute Do Books titles in the US and Canada. Do will fulfill web orders directly and is not moving to another US distributor. Chronicle will accept Do returns through June 30, 2022.
Initiatives: Libro.fm for Business
Audiobook retailer Libro.fm has announced Libro.fm for Business, which allows companies to offer a “curated collection of audiobooks” to employees. In a release, Libro.fm said that they “work with companies to select audiobook options, including bookseller recommendations.” Businesses can offer gift memberships or specific audiobooks to employees, and, as with all Libro.fm downloads, up to 10 percent of the revenue will go to an indie bookstore chosen by the company. “Audiobooks are the fastest growing category in publishing and Libro.fm is uniquely positioned to offer thousands of audiobooks at scale to companies,” Libro.fm co-founder and ceo Mark Pearson said. As […]
Nancy Pearl to Receive NBF Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Book Foundation will present former librarian Nancy Pearl with the 2021 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. Washington Post book critic Ron Charles will present the award at the National Book Award ceremony on November 17. In addition to library work in cities across the country, Pearl created the One Book, One City initiative and is an author and critic. “Nancy Pearl’s energetic commitment to spreading the joy of books has truly helped build our national culture of reading,” said NBF executive director Ruth Dickey. “For decades, Nancy has worked closely with libraries, literacy organizations, […]
Daunt and Entrekin Talk Nonfiction Trends
On the Read Smart podcast from the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, Barnes & Noble ceo James Daunt and Grove Atlantic ceo and publisher Morgan Entrekin discussed how the last 18 months affected their businesses, selling books across the political divide, and how young adults enjoy physical books. As always, Daunt was positive about how B&N has fared during the pandemic, noting that sales went up greatly after the store closures in the first months of lockdowns. Entrekin said that Grove Atlantic’s decision to not move most of their books out of the spring and summer in 2020 “cut both […]