We let the AP and our selected authors and publishers take the lead in making the announcement of our release of the big new Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter and Fall/Winter Young Adult free ebook samplers. We first created Buzz Books three years to solve two problems: Curating and sharing the wealth of “buzz books” on display at BEA well beyond one or two panel slots, to help attendees arrive with real knowledge of some of the important books (and to share BEA with those across the trade who don’t attend), and anticipating how you might achieve the “great giveaway” […]
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Still Buzzworthy
Later this week we will release our two newest Publishers Lunch Buzz Books Fall/Winter ebook samplers to get you ready for BEA, BookCon and the big publishing season beyond (with not just 12, but rather about 60 pre-publication excerpts). But before we tout the new editions, it’s worth reminding you and any audiences you might reach that the current Spring/Summer editions still feature the best way to taste almost two dozen high-profile books landing May through July, including some major debuts (Erika Swyler; J. Ryan Stradal; Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite; and Jessica Knoll) as well as highly anticipated books from […]
April Bookselling Picks
Big booksellers’ picks for some of the best books coming this month are posted. The April Indie Next No. 1 Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian is featured on Amazon’s best books of the month as well. Amazon and the iBooks Store both select The Children’s Crusade by Ann Packer, which you can start reading right now in advance of publication in our free Buzz Books 2015 ebook. Other Buzz Books you can sample featured on this month’s list include Viet Thanh Nguyen‘s debut The Sympathizer (on Amazon’s list) — as well as Matthew Pearl‘s The Last Bookaneer (a winner for Pearl fans), Scott Simon‘s Unforgettable, and Maria Bello‘s Whatever…Love […]
The Complete Spring/Summer YA (and Middle Grade) Buzz Books
Following up on yesterday’s post, here is a complete list of the over 25 forthcoming titles from which we feature pre-publication excerpts in our recently published free ebook Buzz Books 2015 Young Adult: Spring. You can get an EPUB of the trade edition directly from our site, or if you prefer, it’s “read now” download at NetGalley (where it already has over 130 five- and four-star reviews) and on Edelweiss. The consumer edition is available from Amazon Kindle, Apple’s iBook Store, Barnes and Noble Nook, Kobo, and Google Play. Here is the entire roster: Renee Ahdieh, THE WRATH AND THE DAWN (Putnam Juvenile) Kathleen Baldwin, A SCHOOL FOR UNUSUAL GIRLS (Tor […]
The Complete Spring/Summer Adult Buzz Books
Winter Institute comes to a close Wednesday and those 500 booksellers will head home with lots of galleys, while we are supplying thousands of people — both trade professionals but also readers all over — with pre-publication excerpts from 40 top new titles in our recently published free ebook Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer. You can get an EPUB of the trade edition directly from our site, or if you prefer, it’s “read now” download at NetGalley (where it already has 75 five- and four-star reviews) and on Edelweiss. The consumer edition is available on Amazon Kindle, Apple’s iBookstore, Barnes and Noble Nook, Kobo, and Google Play. Here […]
ABA News: 54 New Stores In 2014, and Winter Institute Buzz Authors
In the lead up to next week’s tenth annual Winter Institute, the ABA noted that they tabulated 54 new member stores selling new books in 2014: 45 new bookstores, and 9 new branches or satellites of existing members (plus another 5 stores primarily selling used books). Perhaps more significantly, they also charted sales of 28 ABA member businesses to new owners. (The story includes a complete list of new stores and new owners.) At their dedicated WI mini-site the ABA lists all of the many authors who will appear at next week’s event, and we have already run our seasonal […]