The AAP reported June sales from their approximately 1,200 reporting publishers, with sales turning positive, due almost entirely to adult trade paperback sales, no doubt the result of the June 21 publication of GREY by EL James. Adult sales of $377 million were up $26.6 million (or 7.6 percent), with trade paperbacks rising $27.6 million (or 29 percent) to $123.6 million. Per the year’s trend, however, hardcover sales remained weak, falling $18.1 million (or 17 percent) to $91 million for the month. Children’s and YA sales also did not benefit from the overall uptick, falling $3.1 million, or 2.6 percent, also weak in […]
Allende’s The Japanese Lover Tops November Library Reads List
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende is the No. 1 pick for the November Library Reads list. The list also includes an excerpt of Jason Gay’s Little Victories, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter ebook, as well as November #1 Indie Next Pick The Muralist by B.A Shapiro. The rest of the list features: Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love (Knopf) Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Crimson Shore (Grand Central) M.H. Boroson, The Girl With Ghost Eyes (Talos Press) Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea (Putnam) Jenn McKinlay, A Likely […]
People: Alexievich Wins Nobel, and More
Belarus journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, cited by the Swedish Academy for “her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Though Alexievich had been installed as the bettors’ favorite over the past few weeks, she is another instance of an under-translated Nobel winner in the English language: her oral history Voices From Chernobyl (1997) was published in 2005 by Dalkey Archive Press and then in paperback the next spring by Picador — and the book (with Keith Gessen’s translation) won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Earlier, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the […]
People, Etc.
The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction was awarded to Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan (Harper Canada). Following the Giller Prize shortlist earlier in the week, finalists were announced for Canada Governor General’s Awards. Rachel Cusk‘s Outline is now a contender for both awards. Joining her on the Governor General’s nominees for English-language fiction are: How You Were Born, Kate Cayley (Pedlar Press) The Evening Chorus, Helen Humphreys (Harper Canada) The Winter Family, Clifford Jackman (Random House Canada) Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, Guy Vanderhaeghe (McClelland & Stewart) Kathrin Scheel has started a new foreign rights agency based in Hamburg, […]
HBG and Perseus Promise Faster Deliveries
Hachette Book Group announced a new Rapid Replenishment Program, where all orders (subject to stock availability) received on Mondays by 3pm ET will be entered, picked, packed and guaranteed to arrive at accounts no later than Friday. Orders placed Tuesday through Friday will be entered, picked and packed within 24 hours and shipped standard method. This includes orders received into the Hachette system via electronic ordering platforms like Edelweiss. Perseus is partnering with FedEx on an agreement that will “significantly improve shipments to bookstores and other outlets across the US,” the company announced. Under the new agreement, which goes into […]
People: Meyer “Reimagines” TWILIGHT for 10th Annniversary; and More
Stephenie Meyer announced on Good Morning America a “surprise” new novel in the Twilight series, LIFE AFTER DEATH: TWILIGHT REIMAGINED, released today as bonus content bundled with the original book’s 10th anniversary edition. (The publisher had billed the anniversary edition as offering hundreds of pages of unspecified “bonus content”; this is the bonus.) The new 442-page story is a “reimagining” which flips gender, where Bella is now Beau and Edward is now Edythe. Meyer said in the novel’s foreword that she wrote the story as a response to comments that Bella was a “damsel in distress,” saying: “My answer to that […]