At Ecco, Ashley Garland has been promoted to senior publicity manager. Ami Greko will start working at Penguin Random House UK next Monday, as product manager of their author portal, reporting to digital publisher Dan Franklin. She was book marketing strategist at Goodreads before relocating to London earlier this year. At Sourcebooks, Cat Clyne has been promoted to associate editor for Casablanca, their romance imprint. In addition, Skye Agnew has been promoted to associate managing editor. At Open Road Integrated Media, David Adams has been promoted to editor. Kerry Cahill has joined the Johns Hopkins University Press as sales director of the books division, […]
Bookstores
Buck’s Oregon Trail Leads July Indie Next List
The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for July. The rest of the list includes two books, The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler and The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich, featured in our Spring/Summer Buzz Books 2015 ebook, and also includes the following: The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George The Truth and Other Lies, by Sascha Arango The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins Bull Mountain, by Brian Panowich Language Arts, by Stephanie Kallos My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, by Fredrik Backman Love May Fail, by […]
Bookselling: June Picks From Amazon, iBooks Costco, Target; Independent Bookstore Day 2016
Amazon‘s “spotlight pick” for June is Jami Attenberg’s Saint Mazie and their “featured debut” is Erika Swyler’s The Book of Speculation. Their other best books of June top picks are: Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg, Modern Romance Mia Alvar, In The Country Sarah Hepola, Blackout Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night Stephen King, Finders Keepers Robert Kurson, Pirate Hunters *Paolo Baciagalupi, The Water Knife Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years Meanwhile King’s Finders Keepers leads off iBooks‘ June fiction picks, while Kurson’s Pirate Hunters tops the nonfiction monthly selections. The full lists include: Fiction The […]
At ABA Annual Keynote, Teicher Points to “Impressive Resurgence” of Indie Bookselling
At the ABA’s annual general meeting, ceo Oren Teicher called attention to independent bookstores’ “impressive resurgence” and the association’s expanding initiatives over the past twelve months. Teicher called attention to “significant investment in technology, especially for IndieCommerce”; an expansion of Winter Institute as well as the Children’s Institute; the “successful debut” of Independent Bookstore Day; and the Indies First and Indies Introduce program. “Though we are not there yet, we are making progress on decoupling ‘endangered’ from indie bookstore!” As reported earlier in the week, ABA members now operate more than 2200 bookstores, with increased sales for 47 of 52 […]
Kobo Extends ABA Partnership With eRead Local Program
Kobo is adding a new component to its existing partnership with the American Booksellers Association with the impending launch of eRead Local, set to launch later this summer (the exact timing is still TBA.) Participating ABA members will receive $5 USD per new Kobo customer acquired, and each new customer creating a Kobo account through an affiliate ABA member will receive a $5 USD credit for use toward their first purchase of a Kobo eBook. ABA members who acquire 100 new customers will be entered for a chance to win an in-store event with a bestselling author, and those who […]
People, Etc.
Martin Barabas has joined Regan Arts as publicity manager. Most recently he worked at Ingber & Associates Talent Agency. Debra Woodward will join Red Wheel/Weiser as sales manager on June 8. She was most recently the New England sales representative for Candlewick Press. At Soho Press, Amara Hoshijo has been promoted to assistant editor. At Sourcebooks, Becca Smith is being promoted to publicity & marketing specialist. In addition, Ami Vanderhoof has joined the e-commerce department as brand marketing manager. Previously she was marketing manager at Fannie May Confections Brands. Finally, Imani Mixon has joined as ecommerce copywriter/storyteller. Distribution The Brookings […]