Start-up BitLit has announced a pilot program with Harper Collins. The publisher is testing the app that provides a discounted ebook as a bundled offer to a proven print book purchaser or owner on 6 titles for now (Halfway to the Grave, by Jeaniene Frost, Black Magic Sanction, by Kim Harrison, Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, Wicked, by Gregory Maguire, The Success Principles by Jack Canfield, and 15 Seconds by Andrew Gross). In personnel news, at Harper Collins, Erin Gorham has been promoted to director, digital accounts, while Lindsey Kline has been promoted to digital sales specialist. Colleen Venable will join Workman […]
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At Putnam, Katie McKee has been promoted to senior publicity manager, while Elena Hershey moves up to associate publicist. At Chronicle Books, Will Schrom has been promoted to national accounts manager, Barnes & Noble and Calendar Club. At Crown Publishing Group, Hanna Glidden has been promoted to associate managing editor. Katie McHugh has left her post as editor, brand development at Time Home Entertainment to become a freelance nonfiction editor. She can be reached at mchugh.katie@gmail.com. Christina Rodriguez has left Hudson Street Press, where she was associate editor, to pursue an opportunity outside of the publishing industry. She can be […]
Cain Tops August Library Reads; Target Picks Joshilyn Jackson; and More
Chelsea Cain’s One Kick tops the August Library Reads list, which includes 3 of our fall/winter Publishers Lunch Buzz Books titles you can start reading right now: Lock In, by John Scalzi The Miniaturist, by Jessie Burton The Magician’s Land, by Lev Grossman [The first two are excerpted now on the Buzz site, as well.] The rest of the list features: Lucky Us, by Amy Bloom Heroes Are My Weakness, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty The Truth about Leo, by Katie MacAlister An Unwilling Accomplice, by Charles Todd The Story Hour, by Thrity Umrigar Separately, the August Target Book Club Pick is […]
People: Nadine Gordimer Dies
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, 90, died at home in Johannesburg. Gordimer won the Booker in 1974 and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2002, along with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Jamil Ahmad, 83, author of THE WANDERING FALCON, died at his home in Islamabad after a long illness. Ahmad’s debut novel was published in 2011 when he was 79 after being excerpted in the “Pakistan” issue of Granta. At St Martin’s, Nancy Trypuc has been promoted to vp, creative services. Jerry Bilek will join the Minnesota Historical Society Press as sales manager on August 1. Bilek is the owner of Monkey […]
Painted Horses Tops August Indie Next List
Malcolm Brooks’ debut novel Painted Horses — a spring/summer Publishers Lunch Buzz Books title — tops the ABA’s Indie Next List for August. Two more books from our newest (still available to read now for free) fall/winter Buzz Books sampler also make the list, The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman and The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. The rest of the list features: Lucky Us, by Amy Bloom Small Blessings, by Martha Woodroof A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman In the Kingdom of Ice, by Hampton Sides The Home Place, by Carrie La Seur Life Drawing, by Robin Black A Colder War, by […]
Amazon Picks Lepucki For July But Still Isn’t Selling It Yet
Amazon’s “best books of the month” list for July once again selects a forthcoming Hachette Book Group title that they are not willing to sell on a pre-order basis — in this case, Edan Lepucki’s CALIFORNIA, the title that Stephen Colbert urged his fans to pre-order from independent stores as part of his “ongoing war with Amazon.” (Little, Brown will publish on July 8.) The Spotlight title for the month is War of the Whales: A True Story, by Joshua Horwitz, and the featured debut is Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng. The other highlighted titles are: High as the […]