The AAP released its February 2022 StatShot data from reporting publishers, showing total trade sales of $648 million for the month, an 11.9 percent increase over last year, when sales were $579 million. Adult books increased 7 percent to $443 million, with hardcover sales up 8.8 percent to $129 million and paperback sales up 26.4 percent to $151 million. Mass market sales were down (26.5) percent to $16 million. Children’s and young adult books had overall sales of $205 million, a 24.2 percent increase. Paperbacks saw the highest gains, with sales of $83 million, up 34 percent. Hardcovers were up […]
NYRB Goes Back to Print on Pulitzer Winner
New York Review Books told PL that they had more than 2,000 copies of Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus in stock when it was announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Now there are orders for nearly 10,000 copies, they say, “a huge portion of which are coming from independent bookstores.” They expect those reprints to arrive in early June, and are placing additional orders this week.
Chelsea Green Suit Against Sen. Warren “Unlikely to Succeed”
A judge rejected a request from publisher Chelsea Green and authors of the book The Truth About COVID-19 that Sen. Elizabeth Warren retract a letter that criticizes the book as “vaccine misinformation,” the AP reports. Chelsea Green and authors Dr. Joseph Mercola, Ronald Cummins and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sued Warren in November after Warren wrote a letter to Amazon criticizing the retailer for “peddling misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments through its search and ‘Best Seller’ algorithms” that led the book to top search results. The plaintiffs argue in their lawsuit that Warren’s letter infringes on their First Amendments […]
Imprints: Canelo US
UK ebook and paperback publisher Canelo will partner with Readerlink to launch an imprint in the US. Readerlink’s Printers Row Publishing Group will serve as the exclusive North American publisher of Canelo titles, under the Canelo US imprint. “Print has been a huge growth story for us over the last three years,” Canelo managing director Iain Millar said in a release. “Although we started as a digital publisher, print is now core to everything we do. We’ve been thinking about the best way of getting our titles into the US market for some time and are absolutely delighted to partner […]
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Julianne Lewis is promoted to senior marketing manager at Hachette Books and Hachette Go.
New Books Publishing May 10
Jennifer Weiner and Francesca Momplaisir lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes new work from Kim Stanley Robinson, Carlo Rovelli and Mark Esper. Also out today is Jameela Green Ruins Everything by Zarqa Nawaz, which is excerpted and available in our Buzz Books 2022: Spring/Summer sampler. 13 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-may-10 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_May_/222800 10 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-3 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_May_/222801 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you […]