Tattered Cover canceled today’s planned auction to determine a new owner “to allow more time to discuss with interested buyers,” the Denver Post reports. The auction may happen in the future, or “may not be needed,” store spokesperson Steven Silvers said. In May, Tattered Cover said that they were soliciting bids from potential buyers, and that they would hold the auction if there were multiple bidders. In bankruptcy court filings, they said they had executed signed NDAs from eight potential bidders and were hoping for more.
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At Ecco, Meghan Deans has been promoted to executive director, marketing.
Macmillan Recalls Signed Questlove Stock
On Friday evening, Macmillan emailed booksellers to alert them not to sell the signed copies they had received of Questlove’s HIP-HOP IS HISTORY, publishing today from Auwa/FSG. The publisher asked stores to disable buy buttons for the signed edition from their sites. The unsigned books, they said, are still ok to sell. In a statement, the publisher said, “Macmillan and Farrar, Straus and Giroux have just learned that the limited number of pre-signed copies of Questlove’s book, HIP-HOP IS HISTORY, which is published today by AUWA, an imprint of FSG/MCD were not individually signed by the author. The publisher would […]
New Books Publishing June 11
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Nicola Yoon, Robin Sloan, and Elin Hilderbrand, while Griffin Dunne and Ryan Holiday publish nonfiction works. 24 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-11 12 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-11 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 June‘s 68 fiction releases, 28 works of nonfiction, and 44 children’s titles; and July‘s 142 fiction releases, 39 works of nonfiction, and 20 children’s titles; and August‘s 105 fiction releases, 18 works of nonfiction, and […]
TX Book Ban Overturned, Some Titles Returned to Library
On Thursday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas upheld part of preliminary injunction returning some banned books to a local library, ruling that “Government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree.” The suit was brought by seven patrons of the Llano County, TX library system, who asserted that the government’s 2021 removal of books based on their content “violated their First Amendment right to access information and ideas.” Seventeen books were removed from the library, including “‘butt and fart’ books,” “young adult […]
Introducing The New List
Backlist titles increasingly dominate the publishing landscape, comprising approximately 70 percent of all print book sales. The same statistic is true for top selling titles—of the top 200 books in 2022 and 2023, about 70 percent were published more than a year prior. Those older titles monopolize media bestseller lists, including the New York Times, leaving unrecognized many of the books that publishing staff are working on right now. But the original purpose of bestseller lists was to help readers recognize the hot new titles in the market. To help highlight which new titles are selling, we’re proud to announce […]