Zack Knoll has joined Abrams as editor. He was previously at Simon & Schuster.
Read with Jenna September Pick
Streaming, Print Revenues Up at Storytel, But Moderated Forecast Hits Stock
Swedish ebook streaming service and publisher Storytel reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, with streaming sales of SEK545.5 million ($64.7 million), up from SEK459.1 million a year ago, or 18.8 percent. Print publishing sales were SEK149.96 million, up from SEK126.74 million, or 18.3 percent. Pre-tax loss for the quarter was SEK(132.8) million, compared to a loss of SEK(72.6) million in Q2 2020. (As in the past, the company expects loss while in this growth mode.) During the quarter, Storytel acquired Finnish publisher Aula & Co. They expect the partnership with Spotify, announced in May, to be implemented […]
September Book Club Picks
Reese's Book Club's September pick is L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón.
People 9/2
Helen Healey has been promoted to editor at Portfolio and Sentinel.
Forthcoming: Raskin’s Memoir
Harper will publish Congressman Jamie Raskin’s memoir, UNTHINKABLE: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, on January 4, 2022. SVP & director of creative development Lisa Sharkey acquired World Rights, with executive editor Matt Harper editing. In a release, Raskin said, “I wrote UNTHINKABLE as a way to make sense of two traumatic events in my life, the shattering loss of our son Tommy to depression on the last day of 2020 and, one week later, the bloody January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol incited by Donald Trump and calculated to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.”