Margaret Atwood may have promoted previous books remotely via the LongPen, but for her upcoming novel THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD she’ll be a little more ever-present. The Toronto Star reports Atwood will tour the U.S., Europe and Canada “using a live performance with original music, local actors and the author herself as narrator.” Toronto Star Atwood is also starting a tour blog and using Twitter, as is Joseph Finder, who launches a Twitter Book Tour today for his new thriller VANISHED, running for the next three days. Finder website And Simon & Schuster’s worldwide publication of Philippa Gregory’s THE […]
Summer Reading Picks from Michelle Obama, Stephenie Meyer
O Magazine collates a list of books Michelle Obama has mentioned reading: The Life of Pi by Yann MartelAlexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss Olivia by Ian Falconer Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak While Stephenie Meyer shares her summer reading list: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and Dreamhunter & Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox (a ” really wonderful” two-book series “like nothing else I’ve ever read”)
Book Comps, Overall Results Fall for Hastings
Second quarter sales at Hastings fell $8.5 million, or 6.7 percent, to $117 million, while net earnings dropped to $396,000, compared to net earnings of $660,000 in last year’s second quarter. Same-store sales for books also fell 1.7 percent for the quarter, primarily as a result of lower sales of new hardcovers, new trade paperbacks, and magazines, partially offset by strong sales of used and value books. Release
The Dan Brown Media Extravaganza Begins
We’re less than a month away from the publication date of THE LOST SYMBOL and that means the onslaught of quasi-meaningful articles attempting to analyze Dan Brown as a cultural phenomenon is well under way. The Guardian wonders if the simultaneous ebook release will “spell the end of the printed word,” though evidence is limited to a few people’s speculations: “The ebook is very quickly becoming a publishing reality and The Lost Symbol will be one of the fastest-selling books of recent times,” said Joel Rickett, editorial director of Viking UK. “Once people can flip between books, look up references […]
Bookselling News: Posman Books in Chelsea Market; Sarasota Books Faces Possible Closure; and More
Posman Books will open a new branch in Chelsea Market on September 1. The store will be managed by Logan Fox, formerly owner of Micawber Books in Princeton. Sarasota News & Books may close at the end of this month after 50 years in business unless the owners can renegotiate their lease. Herald Tribune Storylines Bookstore & Cafe in Watkins Glen, NY will close on September 12 as the current owners seek a buyer for the business.Star Gazette The owner of Conkey’s, Wisconsin’s oldest bookstore, holds out hope he can find a buyer now that he has retired, but the […]
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Christie Henry has been promoted to Editorial Director for the Sciences at the University of Chicago Press. She had been Executive Editor. Jessica Olivo has been promoted to Foreign Rights Agent at Trident Media Group.