Circling the Sun by Paula McLain is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for August. The rest of the list also includes Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal and The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman, both featured in our Spring/Summer Buzz Books 2015 ebook, as well as: Fishbowl, by Bradley Somer Armada, by Ernest Cline The Girl Who Slept with God, by Val Brelinski You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), by Felicia Day Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother’s Story, by David Payne Dragonfish, by Vu Tran Orphan #8, by Kim van Alkemade Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase, […]
Boire Named Barnes & Noble CEO; Carey Promoted to COO
Barnes & Noble has appointed Ronald D. Boire, currently president & chief executive officer of Sears Canada, as ceo of its retail business, effective September 8. Boire will succeed Michael Huseby who — as announced last week — will become executive chairman of Barnes & Noble Education once the company is formally spun off as a separate public company. Boire, who earlier served as evp, global merchandise manager for Best Buy, is expected to join the board of directors for the retail division. Huseby remains on the board of BN, Inc. until the split, after which Education will have its own separate […]
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Kelly Bowen has joined Arcadia Publishing and the History Press as director of marketing and corporate communications. She was previously publicity director at Algonquin Books. Springer Nature (the newly combined Springer + Macmillan Science and Education) has created a new policy & external relations team led by evp Eric Merkel-Sobotta, and a combined communications under evp Joyce Lorigan. Both will report to ceo Derk Haank. Awards David Hackett Fischer won the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The $100,000 award will be presented at the Museum & Library’s annual gala on November 7.
Scribd Cuts Romance Catalog, Aims for “More Mutually Beneficial Terms” with Publishers
eBook subscription service Scribd is removing an unspecified — but apparently significant — quantity of romance and erotica titles from their catalog. The news was publicized by Smashwords ceo Mark Coker on his company blog, where he estimated that that “80-90 percent of Smashwords romance and erotica titles will be dropped by Scribd, including nearly all of our most popular romance titles.” Coker suggested that “the lower the price and the higher the word count, the better the odds the book will remain. Few books priced $3.99 and above will remain. Scribd is not publicly revealing the formulas for what stays and what goes, […]
Bookselling: Amazon Expands in Mexico; Indigo Expands Store Discounts; and More
Two years after launching its Kindle store in Mexico, Amazon has expanded to offer a broad spectrum of physical goods, including printed books, at http://amazon.com.mx/. Offerings include the three versions of the Kindle e-reader. Indigo will now discount 100 top-selling and bookseller-recommend books by 40 percent, ceo Heather Reisman tells the Globe & Mail, “looking for some way to bring a little bit of added value to the overall experience” while noting that if the retailer “had to sell books at online prices, Indigo could not continue to exist.” (Indigo discounts titles by up to 50 percent online.) Previously, they deep discounted […]
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David Hawk joins Ten Speed Press on July 6 as senior marketing and publicity manager. Previously he was a marketing and publicity manager at Chronicle Books, specializing in food and drink titles. Yuka Igarashi will join Catapult as web editor-in-chief in August. Previously she was managing editor at Granta. Awards Deborah Johnson has won the Harper Lee Prize in Legal Fiction for her novel THE SECRET OF MAGIC (Berkley). The inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, recognizing a “promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue,” is going to Adriana E. Ramírez for “Dead Boys.” Picks […]