In this year’s edition of their fall books preview New York Magazine lists their “most anticipated” books for the season: The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach Habibi, Craig Thompson Parallel Stories, Peter Nadas The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern Lives Other Than My Own, by Emmanuel Carrère Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, by Sylvia Nasar Life Itself, by Roger Ebert The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides Zone One, by Colson Whitehead 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami Blue Nights, by Joan Didion The Exegesis of Philip K. […]
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At the Hugo Awards this weekend, Connie Willis won Best Novel for BLACKOUT/ALL CLEAR (Ballantine Spectra). Full List of winners The winners of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize were: Fiction: Tatiana Soli, THE LOTUS EATERS Non-Fiction: Hilary Spurling, BURYING THE BONES: Pearl Buck in China Guardian President Obama‘s summer reading list was released by the White House late last week and included two books he purchased at Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Martha’s Vineyard and three books he brought with him: The Bayou Trilogy, by Daniel Woodrell Rodin’s Debutante, by Ward Just To the End of the Land, by […]
Imprints: Night Shade Shuts Down Pugilist Press; Freehand Books Freezes Acquisitions
Night Shade Books has shut down its dark literary fiction imprint Pugilist Press, set to launch sometime this year, and the imprint’s editor-in-chief Juliet Ulman has left the company. Night Shade publisher Jason Williams said in an email that he shut the imprint down in order to concentrate on the company’s core business. “We started working on Pugilist at the beginning of 2010, when things were much more stable than they are now. In light of the current highly unpredictable and unstable publishing environment, launching a new imprint seems like poor reasoning. Especially a literary imprint, which is probably the […]
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In other personnel news, Jack Palmer has been promoted to publicity and marketing manager and Molly Cavanaugh has joined as publishing assistant at The Experiment. Previously Cavanaugh worked part-time at the University of Chicago Press until her graduation from the school this past June. Michelle Rafferty has joined Soho Press as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Oxford University Press. The CWA announced its shortlists for a number of categories, including: CWA Gold Dagger: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Snowdrops by AD Miller The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina The Lock Artist by Steve […]
Legal News: Another Appeals Case Rules First Sale Doctrine Is US-Only; ‘The Shack’ Lawsuit Finally Settled
Just a few weeks after the Ninth Circuit ruled in a case featuring Costco’s sale of imported Omega watches that the first sale doctrine does not apply to imported goods, another ruling this week from the Second Circuit more forcefully confirms this conclusion – and this time it involves book sales. In a 2-1 decision, the court said Supap Kirtsaeng violated Wiley’s copyrights when he sold cheap foreign editions of the publishers’ textbooks in the US because first sale doctrine does not apply to books sold outside of the country. Any other conclusion would undercut a law already on the books […]
Self-Help Bestseller Tim Ferriss Sells New Book To Kirshbaum’s Amazon Imprint
Some days the biggest news happens in the deals section, and today is no exception with Amazon’s announcement that the still-untitled imprint headed by Larry Kirshbaum made its first buy, acquiring Timothy Ferriss’ latest self-help opus, THE FOUR-HOUR CHEF, for publication next year. (Our deals database has more information on the terms.) Previously Ferriss was published by Crown, and both of his earlier books, THE FOUR-HOUR WORKWEEK and THE FOUR-HOUR BODY, have been on the NYT bestseller lists for 84 and 33 weeks, respectively. Amazon’s release ceded most of the “future of publishing” rhetoric to Ferriss, who was quoted as […]