Scholastic announced results for the fiscal third quarter ended February 29, with sales of $323.7 million, nearly even with $324.9 million a year ago. “Lower U.S. Book Clubs revenues of approximately $14.4 million related to the strategic repositioning of the business, were offset by strong trade publishing revenues in the U.S., Canada and the UK, which benefited from the sales of popular book series titles,” the company said in a release. Operating loss increased 26 percent to $(34.9) million, while adjusted EBITDA decreased 33 percent to (7.2) million. In Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution, the good news was that consolidated […]
Forthcoming: FRAMED by John Grisham
On October 8, Doubleday will publish John Grisham‘s FRAMED: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions, written with Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey. It is the author’s first nonfiction book since 2006. “Since I published THE INNOCENT MAN in 2006, I have wanted to write more true stories about wrongful convictions,” Grisham said in a release. “From a pure storytelling perspective, they are incredible because the drama has so many layers: Suffering, corruption, waste, faith, perseverance, and, hopefully, redemption – it’s all there in every case. From a moral perspective, it is imperative for a society to face and correct injustice. […]
Distribution: Library Tales Publishing
Simon & Schuster will handle sales and distribution worldwide for Library Tales Publishing.
Call for Fall/Winter Season Preview Listings
Our forthcoming Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler will include, as usual, extensive seasonal preview listings of notable titles on the way. We compile these big roundups by looking at publisher catalogs; our own comprehensive monthly lists of significant forthcoming books; hints from our substantial flow of deal reports; aggregation of “anticipated books” lists from other publications; word-of-mouth within the industry; and more. If you have notable fall/winter titles you would like to have considered for the preview list — particularly ones you are concerned we might have missed from the regular signals, along with drop-ins and rescheduled releases — now is […]
Authors Talk: Cristina Henriquez
The Great Divide (Ecco, March 5, 2024. Editor: Sara Birmingham. Agent: Julie Barer, The Book Group.) Cristina Henríquez is the author of The Book of Unknown Americans, The World In Half and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories. She has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, and elsewhere. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the […]
New Books Publishing March 19
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Percival Everett and Téa Obreht, while Christine Blasey Ford and Judith Butler publish new nonfiction works. Also out this week are books by Lisa Ko, Elaine Lin Hering, and Edith Hall, all of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer anthology. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-19 14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-19 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ 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 […]